Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Heavy Eating
Listen. Go get ten tablespoons of sugar, eight teaspoons of baking powder, four of salt. Get two cups of yogurt, two of milk, two of flour, one of cornstarch. Last, a dozen eggs, … Continue reading
Threshold and the Jolt of Pain
Turtles that “loom underwater like an apocryphal hippo,” or walk like some “grand, concise, slow-moving id; lions that roar “like pianos pushed along on hollow floors;” dogs with “epistolary anal glands”—Edward Hoagland’s writing is crammed with such similes and metaphors, … Continue reading
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The Dream of the American Male
These days E.B. White may be most widely known as the author of two classics for young readers—Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little—but he is also one of America’s greatest essay writers. The long essay “Here Is New York,” often published … Continue reading →