WE BEGIN WITH THE TROUBLE, but where does the trouble…

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor

Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense…

— Kyle Minor

“The very face of evil was love.”

— Kyle Minor

Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

— Kyle Minor

There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of…

— Kyle Minor

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

— Kyle Minor

“I am a very slutty reader.”

— Kyle Minor

If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang…

— Kyle Minor

Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as…

— Kyle Minor

One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book…

— Kyle Minor

Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the…

— Kyle Minor

“She had always feared she might die alone, but she was not alone.”

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“There is probably something weird about you, about what you want to do, about how you want to do it. You’re probably not pulling…

— Kyle Minor

“he takes pleasure in the sorting, and even more, perhaps, in the new knowledge that he is a person who can sort.”

— Kyle Minor