Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind serves as editor-in-chief of the Yale Literary Magazine. His work appears in The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, and West Branch.

Greenness | Fiction

Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind

The professor is, of course, talking. The notion that a sentence cannot be a fragment. Adverbs, adverbs. Every language pretends that its word for nostalgia is untranslatable. Camus killed his mother. Tezeta, saudade. He missed her, probably. The professor’s lips are making noises. As professors’ lips are wont to do. A narrator is rather like a fiber supplement. Final papers. Samuel Richardson folded a song into a book. In fact,...