September 1994 Issue
The Son, He Must Not Know
So much bloody effort required to procure the toy, the toy that is a man’s, a father’s, rightful due. All day, a day of calm, of springlike pronouncements, though of a pomp foreign to spring itself…
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Michael Brodsky
Latté Contributor
Michael Brodsky was born in 1948 in New York City and still lives here. He is the author of eleven books of fiction that investigate the philosophical experience of being, including ***, Three Goat Songs, Dyad, X in Paris, Xman and Detour, for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Citation of P.E.N. He is also the translator of Samuel Beckett's play Eleutheria. His latest novels are We Can Report Them (1999) and the vastly expanded version of Detour (2003).