Happy birthday, Luis Buñuel! Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker.
“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”
“I should like to make even the most ordinary spectator feel that he is not living in the best of all possible worlds.”
John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His nonfiction is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.