My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead
Love Among the Ruins
“Love stories depend upon disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.”
Jeffery Eugenides, who wrote The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, has collected an anthology of 26 exhilarating and heartache-producing love stories called My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead. It includes authors ranging from Faulkner and Joyce to Miranda July. We’d trust his curatorial judgment. Even lovier: all proceeds from the book go to the 826 Chicago youth writing programs. [Via Link]
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