Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
chechnya founded linked north tourism travel website wonders
While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled 'Seven Wonders of Chechnya Tour' on the website of Chechnya Travel, the postwar republic's first tourism outfit, founded in 2012.
fluency tongue mint
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
who-we-are
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
numbers miracle limits
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
chechnya rhetorical subjects
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.
love-is deepest-love written
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
girlfriend numbers imagination
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.
meaningful
Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
moments unpredictable loveliness
Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
hands earth ends
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
coward biographies said
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
people regularly taken visited
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
alone letting
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
act behind came car crash family help hiding impending last line refusal statement warn
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.