Click on the player below to listen to Victor LaValle read his essay ‘Long Distance’. It is about the ‘most loving relationship’ of his early twenties – conducted solely by telephone – and on having sex in a new body, after losing 155 pounds.
Click on the player below to listen to Victor LaValle read his essay ‘Long Distance’.
Click on the player below to listen to Victor LaValle read his essay ‘Long Distance’. It is about the ‘most loving relationship’ of his early twenties – conducted solely by telephone – and on having sex in a new body, after losing 155 pounds.
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What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Victor LaValle is the author of Big Machine, Slapboxing with Jesus and The Ecstatic. His most recent book is The Devil in Silver (Spiegel & Grau). He lives in New York City and is at work on a new novel.
More about the author →The author of four books including Slapboxing with Jesus and last in the magazine in...
‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’
‘Can you imagine what it would be like if instead of killing we cuddled?’
‘It is extremely expensive and almost entirely symbolic, for the struggle itself is symbolic, waged mostly by the Political Warfare Department.’
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