A sober living home is a structured, transitional living facility for recovering addicts or alcoholics who are reintegrating into society. Also known as a halfway house, sober living facility, or transitional home, it is not meant to be a permanent accommodation. A resident in a sober home ca...
“It unsettled me some,” he would say, then wait again to be prompted. They’d prompt. “‘Helping people,’ she’d said. She’d found it was a thing she could do, she had a gift for it. All those no-counts and dead-enders in a halfway house in the Slack. She found she ...
For Primi, who is living through the brutal Marcos regime in the Philippines, she is “a vagabond from history, a runaway from time” and sees her favorite authors and literature as a way through the revolution. Originally published in 1997, Apostol’s debut novel is finally available in th...
My friend, who had just purchased a penthouse in Manhattan due to his OPEN profits, had to cancel his purchase, because he did not take his profits. In fact, he rode it all the way back down and did not take any profits at all!! You don’t need anyone to ring a bell for you....
near impenetrable upstate compound. With interpolated web pages and documents andVanity Fairarticles, the novel’s a hot pop mess, but in the special way of a latter-dayKanye Westalbum or a movie co-directed byCharlie KaufmanandMichael Bay, and the climax alone—a 65-page haunted-housetour-...
Living with an addict is never easy whether it is drink, drugs or like my husband HiFi. We have now moved house three times in search of the perfect rectangle lounge. We now have the complete upstairs for the beloved stereo but he is already complaining that the room is too small (bigge...
Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki (various translators): According to Penguin Random House: “At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged.” I’m about two-thirds of the way through these short stories and according to me: “that sounds about right.” If you’re into Kōbō Abe and pre...