What’s a fogou, I hear you ask. It’s an ancient Cornish subterranean dry-stone structure of unknown purpose. The purpose of this fogou, however, is to serve as a repository for fascinating, heart-warming, surprising, illuminating, or cringe-worthy stories I stumble upon during forays in the land of the internet. This is also the place where I will post quotes from the novels and short stories I read. I borrowed the idea from the writer Leah Libresco.
How would you respond to authoritarianism?
The underbelly of the American self-conscious
How to have an impossible conversation
Attending to the national soul
Some fairy tales may be more than 6,000 years old