"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day. "
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re dipping into stories about love’s agonies and ecstasies from our archives. From secret fantasies to the body of the beloved to the feeling of language on the tongue, these writers explore the many things that make our hearts beat faster.
“At the moment of tripartite lovemaking, jealousy and desire compete with equal ferocity.”
—Gabriella Weiner’s chronically unfaithful protagonist finds satiation...
Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer's block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.