story: Helping
author: Robert Stone
year: 1988
where: kitchen table, Italy, making coffee
note: a favorite-favorite
a line: “’Sometimes,’ Elliot said, ‘I try to imagine what it’s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.'”
story: Haircut
author: Ring Lardner
year: 1925
where: bed, Gaggio Montano
note: yesterday, at La Feltrinelli Bookstore, I spotted a Ring Lardner collection in Italian
a line: “Comb it wet or dry?”
samantha Neugebauer 