“He twisted and rolled the pebble between his fingers, staring straight ahead at the black pig, lying tied to a post sunk in bone grey dirt in the middle of the field… more
“He twisted and rolled the pebble between his fingers, staring straight ahead at the black pig, lying tied to a post sunk in bone grey dirt in the middle of the field… more
“Before I knew what I was doing, I chucked the banana. A lifetime of frustration with this team boiled over in that instant… more
“Once omnipotent in our relationship, my father now felt like all he could do for his son was feed him… more
“Uncle Bill got his legs bit off by a shark and died before his body was brought to shore. You might have seen it in the news… more
A piece of the full interview in BULL #3 – Gurganus on fathers, sons, and the Olympic relay that is the fallen world… more
“The world consists, as far as the son can tell, with things he can and things he cannot fit into his mouth. The son will grow up, and eventually stop putting things in his mouth, but the attitude will remain essentially unchanged… more
In a special question from BULL’s Luna Park interview, the author of “What Our Fathers Knew” stabs at the conflicted psychology at work in the new generation of fathers… more
“We think about our wives, our children, think about our fathers: they would have known how to make a loser laugh, how to get a winner to pay.… more
The author of “Fit” on how, despite genetic tendencies, he isn’t graying… more
The author of “Sweet Tooth” on sentimentality, and dead frogs… more