“And the lake always laps at the shore so gently,
licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog.”
-Jenny Erpenbeck
The Simile Museum
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December 6, 2014
December 1, 2014
“Standard, like the salmonella in a poorly cooked chicken sandwich.”
– Hamilton Nolan
November 24, 2014
“He told me I was the sign he’d been waiting for and,
like looking into a crystal ball, he’d just read a private message from God
in the silvery vortex of my left pupil.”
-Ottessa Moshfegh
November 18, 2014
Everything’s a couple sizes bigger: a sky
Cutting deep into the streets, hydrants
As hefty as the heads of oxen, the country’s flag
Flapping like a heavy sheet in the sea wind,
An ice truck parked outside the cathedral.
-Durs Grünbein
November 13, 2014
“To you, your son’s day-to-day life was like a favorite TV series. You followed it with interest, but because you missed half the episodes, you couldn’t understand the whole plot.”
-Andrés Neuman
October 19, 2014
“Oh how we Americans gnash our teeth in bitter anger when we discover that the riveting truth that also played like a Sunday matinee was actually just a Sunday matinee.”
– David Shields
October 14, 2014
“She was married to a spanish painter named Pichot, who was a rather wonderful creature, he was long and thin like one of those primitive Christs in spanish churches and when he did a spanish dance which he did later at the famous banquet to Rousseau, he was awe inspiringly religious.”
-Gertrude Stein
October 10, 2014
“Linda was just born when I had my first miscarriage, and for a while, six months maybe, the sight of those two babies, whom I had loved and cared for with real interest and satisfaction, affected me like poison.”
-Jane Smiley
October 9, 2014
“The sun floats up above the horizon, like a shimmering white blimp.”
-Margaret Atwood
September 26, 2014
“The last vestige of my personality was my terror of my personality’s dissolution, so I clung to it desperately, climbed it like a rope ladder back into my body.”
-Ben Lerner
The Simile Museum 