Interview: Lydia Millet, Author of Love in Infant Monkeys and How the Dead Dream

"The truth is I'm fascinated by the details where different circles of culture overlap and by the manifold ways in which we now treat the profane as the sacred and vice versa."

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Mark Twain

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Ancient writing (at first pictographic in nature) is best known from clay and stone inscriptions, but the use of perishable materials, mainly palm leaf, papyrus, and paper, began in ancient times.