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We, the storytellers, could not get our stories published--anywhere. We typed in fits of Kerouacian ecstasy, swaddled our stories in manila envelopes, sent them out to small journals across the country. The rejections came back in our own self-addressed envelopes, like homing pigeons.
The Telling Room, Michael Paterniti
GQ Magazine recently picked up a few photos from an old shoot with Mel Bernstein, aka Dragonman, one of the largest independent sellers of firearms and the self-proclaimed heaviest armed man in America. Beyond selling firearms, Mel also collects military memorabilia from throughout American history. His collection is simply stunning. Could spend months documenting this stuff. Was fun to revisit this strange and super interesting character. He’s got quite the story. Larger gallery here.
Who you are is defined by who you gravitate to, who surrounds you, who reflects you back.
Michael Paterniti, The Telling Room
I love when you’re a quarter way into a book and you have the thought “i can’t wait to read everything else this author’s ever written”
A story is time itself, boxed and compressed. It is the briefest entertainment and simulacrum of real life, which is big and messy and requires a strange kind of endurance. The story is stylized for that flash of laughter and pain, thwarted desire and odd consummation, while life waterfalls with it - all of it - every day: prodigious, cloying, in decay. And when the story is finally over - even if the protagonist survives a spray of gunfire and goes on living-it's over. Meanwhile, life carries on, river-swift.
Michael Paterniti, from The Telling Room
Review: The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti
In a small village, a man named Ambrosio experiments and works to revive an old family recipe, a cheese his father remembers from his youth. What he creates is something so extraordinary that it wins awards and turns heads. In a college in the US, another man edits a newsletter for a local deli and becomes acquainted with the story of the world’s greatest cheese. Later, when he has a chance, he…
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Once upon a time—1975, actually, in Cambodia—there was a regime so evil that it created an antisociety where torture was currency and music,
After the decimation, after the sudden disappearance of the Khmer Rouge (one S-21 survivor, Chim Math, said her first act after freedom had been to eat three bowls of rice and then to break down weeping)
It’s not that the Midwest lacks bustle; it’s just that away from the cities, the deadlines are imposed by the earth and its seasons.
“Driving Mr. Albert,” Love & Other Ways of Dying, Michael Paterniti
