“Things—small things—are riding down the gutter with the rain.”
—Paradise Field, Pamela Ryder
The poetic weight of a small detail—seizing what is beneath and laying it bare—well, that is Pamela Ryder for you.
Joshua Kornreich is the author of The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars, Knotty, Knotty, Knotty, and Horsebuggy.
