LBBG Extract

  Private Scandals by Nora Roberts   Chicago, 1994   It was a moonless midnight in Chicago, but to Deanna, the moment had all the makings of High Noon. It was easy to see herself […]

‘Insightful. Inventive. Hilarious. Genius’ EIMEAR MCBRIDE ‘Bina is fiction of the rarest and darkest kind, a work whose pleasures must be taken measure for measure with its pains’ RACHEL CUSK My name is Bina and I’m […]

Still I Rise   You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? […]

The Conditional Say tomorrow doesn’t come. Say the moon becomes an icy pit. Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified. Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire. Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks. Say the […]

FRANZ MARC’S BLUE HORSES​   I step into the painting of the four blue horses. I am not even surprised that I can do this. One of the horses walks towards me. His blue nose […]

The High Priestess of Soul’s Sunday Morning Visit to the Wall of Respect​   The Impressionism wing strikes me as too dainty for my mood, except for one oil painting by Gustave Caillebotte, Calf’s head […]

This playlist is a sonic journey through Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World. It follows the narrative pathway of the book, but I’ve been disciplined and limited it to one song […]

    Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts   Prologue    He didn’t want to be there. No, he hated being trapped in the elegant old house, prodded and pinched by restless ghosts. It was no […]