D. A. Hosek

Just another writer

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    Cold and calm under mackerel skies that pink in the sunset. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Penelope Fitzgerald

    Language refers only to itself, it is not the key to anything higher. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    When Jesus washed Saint Peter’s feet it was surely a lesson in humility for his apostle, not for himself. We do not like to be done for. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • Beautiful Sentences: John Scalzi

    If you could go back, why would you make the same choices? You already lived that life. John Scalzi, Old Man’s War.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    Wild sleep has tossed aside the gray wool blanket and sheet and twisted her nightgown on her body so that it seems shameless and slatternly. A great gush of blond hair veils her pillow. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • Beautiful Sentences: David Gilbert

    I knew it was heading toward a dark place, but the way he twists the reader into being an accomplice, like you’re the voice in Edgar Mead’s head, that was pretty cool, like the reader affects what’s being read, kind of a Schrödinger’s cat-and-mouse game. David Gilbert, & Sons.

  • 2017 in rejections (and acceptances)

    I’ve upped my submissions a bit from last year, but still below last year. Once again, I fell short of my goal of 200 rejections, but came closer than last year with 160 vs 144. I did manage to set a couple records with my highest ever acceptance rate (4.2%, up from last year’s previous…

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    Mariette gazes around the oratory. Each nun stares at the prioress in common. Each stares at her separately. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • 2017 in Reading

    My favorite reads of the year, in alphabetical order by title. I read some damned good shit this year with one re-read in the list (Run) The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler  Cake Time by Siel Ju Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey  Fountain…