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's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found 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, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.