Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
writing laughing paper
Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.
love-is deepest-love written
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
organization growth movement
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
believe civilization clothes
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
girlfriend numbers imagination
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.
numbers miracle limits
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
who-we-are
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
fluency tongue mint
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
government journalism line manhattan propaganda
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
beloved hard met work
It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
class college death great literature love novel politics questions russian smitten tackle took writers
I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
block format requires sentence
When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
chechnya founded linked north tourism travel website wonders
While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled 'Seven Wonders of Chechnya Tour' on the website of Chechnya Travel, the postwar republic's first tourism outfit, founded in 2012.