D. A. Hosek

Just another writer

  • “Persistence of Memory”: The Story Behind the Story

    “Persistence of Memory” has its origins in a visit to the Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida. During a tour of the exhibits, there was a painting from the same series as Dalí’s “The Persistence of Memory” and the guide said that this was about Dalí attempting to portray time flattening to a single…

  • Dewey Decimal Project: 491.843 ALB Teach Yourself Slovene

    At this point, I’ve been through a number of language texts, enough to get a sense for what works for me and what doesn’t (I’d like to think that in a visit to a bookstore, I’d be able to flip through a text to get a sense if it’s worthwhile). This is definitely not a worthwhile…

  • Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange

    Those hills bend time. Tommy Orange, There There.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Emily Banks

    We close our own dead’s eyes so we can’t seethis pupilless despair, the final begging prayersof a godless animal. Emily Banks, “Thaw.”

  • Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa

    And I smile to myself as I think that life, which includes these pages bearing the names of fabrics and various sums of money, blank spaces, ruled lines and letters, also includes the great navigators, the great saints, the poets of every age, none of whom appear in this book, a whole vast progeny excluded…

  • Writerly resolutions, April Status

    The novel feels like it’s going better, although the numbers reveal I wrote just 2,273 words, which is more than last month, but less than I would have liked. Short story statuses: nothing new put into submissions but I’m beginning to get some minor traction with the new stories and revising the long story.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams

    Little children were too innocent to provide salvation. Indeed, little children were always leading their elders right into the teeth of death. Joy Williams, The Changeling.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa

    There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect. Fernando…

  • Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams

    They had provided her with substitutions and she had lived safely in the brightness of false things. Joy Williams, The Changeling.