story: Flaubert Again
author: Anne Carson
year: 2018
where: Ville de Paris
note: what a tour de force…is this a future of the short short story or something else?
a line: “While they were there, she’d renounced writing. Instead, she made sketches in a sketchbook and titled it “The Glass of Water,” as if that were what everyone was looking for, a glass of water in Greece, not a different kind of novel or some not-stupid sentences.”