“One’s life is a heavy price to pay for being born.”
“The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time.”
To live is to battle the demons
in the heart as well as the brain.
To write is to preside at
judgment day over one’s self.
“I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions—to destroy.”
“Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood and grope among insoluble enigmas.”
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.
