a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
pseydtonne  ·  3844 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

"Years later, when the Moreno child is twelve, the two daughters that Conte had lost in a vicious divorce on the West Coast are murdered -- to all appearances either by his ex-wife, Nancy, or her husband, Ralph, or both, but no charges were filed, and the long-absent father raced from his grief with legs of stone, while in the grip of his desire for revenge."

-Frank Lentricchia, The Dog Killer of Utica

...and yes, this is the recently retired Duke professor that wrote After the New Criticism