Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Laura Furman

Born: 1945 (age 81)
Bio: Laura J. Furman is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere'.
Known for:
- The Mother Who Stayed: Stories (2011)
- Ordinary paradise (1998)
- Tuxedo Park (1986)
- Drinking with the cook (2001)
- The Shadow Line (1982)






