Y (from “The End”)
Y is for yes, and for yet, and for you. Y is for why. You are asking me. Y is a slingshot and a perch. It is a surprising view. It is among the sunniest of letters, a relative of vowels yet its own creature.
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Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic who writes frequently on contemporary art. Her most recent book is An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays (Graywolf Press, 2024), selected by New York Magazine as a best book of 2024 and winner of the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.
This excerpt was originally published in the essay “The End” from An Image of My Name Enters America. Reprinted with permission from the author.
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Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic who writes frequently on contemporary art. Her most recent book is An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays (Graywolf Press, 2024), selected by New York Magazine as a best book of 2024 and winner of the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.
This excerpt was originally published in the essay “The End” from An Image of My Name Enters America. Reprinted with permission from the author.
