Thursday, January 23, 2025

First Lines: Brock Clarke


I, Sam Pulsifer, am the man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, and who in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison and, as letters from scholars of American literature tell me, for which I will continue to pay a high price into the not-so-sweet hereafter.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Brock Clarke

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