The Hill

“I had crested time’s peak, gone where my family went, stayed where they stayed, had accomplished these feats again and again, and still the counselor took my commitments as fearfulness, my will for laziness.”

When I feel the pressure to produce, I remind myself of the books that took decades to write. As far as contemporary titles go, Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin often comes to mind—now, Harriet Clark’s The Hill joins the roster of slow stories that will surely leave a lasting impact... Read more here.