Losing Found Things

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

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Sustained movement is necessary to maintain your slippery state of consciousness.

“The Buddhists say suicide’s a temporary solution to a permanent problem,” she says.

The voice here is more sculptor than painter to me—words hammered into place, into the exactly suited shape and shine, and scratches.

It has such an engaging, cinematic quality, and such ferocious language. The quality of this work is so far superior to the best … I can think of.

It is absolutely worthy of a spot in the New Yorker or Atlantic monthly.

Losing Found Things is a staggering work of excellence and deserves to see the light of day in the Paris Review or a similar quality publication.

author and editor of This Literary Magazine

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Yvette Wielhouwer Managan