"I think you're beautiful!" "Not interested, thanks".
This most recent number features Clancy Martin, Deb Olin Unferth and the inimitable Lydia Davis, whose deft and beautiful "Not Interested" is a masterpiece of indirect depth.
Anais Nin was a most glamorous replacement for a faithless mother: maternal, beautiful, infinitely interested - but doomed to repeat Vidal's abandonment for a second agonizing time.
But I think I've accepted that making things that are beautiful is interesting, whereas before I was not interested in beauty at all.
He is a gauche colonial, neither refugee nor tourist, and none of London's throngs of beautiful girls is interested in that smouldering core of his.Instead of seeking out his new passionate self through human contact, John turns to literature, expecting Eliot, Pound, Flaubert and Ford Madox Ford to provide answers.
The title comes from that lovely Bohumil Hrabal quote: "To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names". I'm interested in the contrast between beauty and cruelty in everyday life.
She was like no girl I had ever encountered, beautiful, adventurous, exotic... and interested in me.
The swimming pool sequences, in which Clyde patiently and good-humoredly coaxes his friend toward mastery, are beautiful and real, more interested in observing behavior than in making a point about the characters.
She was sweet on my grandmother, whose tragic story she seemed to know, just as she knew mine, and I could never tell whether it was as a beautiful woman that Augusta Morganstern interested her, or as a Jewess, or as the wife of Harold Preston, for she was sweet on him, too, and so was Till.
