A piece of the full interview in BULL #3 – Gurganus on fathers, sons, and the Olympic relay that is the fallen world… more
Tag Archives: Fathers
Fit
Fiction by James Tadd Adcox“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
BULLshot: Alan Stewart Carl
Uncategorized by Jarrett HaleyIn 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
What Our Fathers Knew
Fiction by Alan Stewart Carl“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
BULLshot: James Tadd Adcox
Uncategorized by Pete WitteThe author of “Fit” on how, despite genetic tendencies, he isn’t graying… more
BULLshot: Robert Scotellaro
Uncategorized by Pete WitteThe author of “Sweet Tooth” on sentimentality, and dead frogs… more
The Convalescent
Fiction by Joseph Winter“He unbuttoned the front of his shirt, revealing a livid seam that ran ten inches straight down his chest… more
The Dark Is What
Fiction by Jensen Beach“My son was not pleased, but I reminded him that nothing can last, which is both good and bad because it means you will never feel anything for very long… more
Obituary for a Poet Heretic
Fiction by Marcus Speh“My father was a surgeon, a shaman and a greyhound. A runner in his youth, he thought little of exercise and called himself a cultured couch potato. As a doctor he loved each patient and included them in what he called prayers… more
El Sancho
Fiction by Kevin Kaiser“El Sancho’s boots beneath your bed. Something about the man in this telenovela must remind her of El Sancho, but it’s not the hands. The tape measure unfurls, measures eight, nine, ten inches of El Sancho… more
