Best American fantasy

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

A fresh river in a beautiful meadow Imagined in his mind The good Painter, who would some day paint it

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?