Everyday Stories

We live in days no leaving them or choosing them. What''s in a day? with their natural narrative arc they begin and they end and in between we talk about how they are going or wonder ''where'' they have gone. They each have their small stories non-stories ephemeral stories. So every day slips by most days much like most other days. We eat we sleep we go to work; We endure enjoy continue. Day after day day before day it is the recurring of no particular story in endless beginning less succession. At the same time any single day is also a unique date with its multi-digit identity its moment-at last and never again-of here and now today. And on longer scales the slow small shifts of ordinary days and their surrounding stories will eventually remake the days that have been and gone as the times that are no more. An ordinary day from decades let alone centuries ago must now be a ''once'' long passed away the old days to be regretted-or to be revived in all the curiosity of their historical difference. Everyday Stories makes us think again about the ordinary life we are in day after day and day by day: Always the same and always slightly changing. Entering into the single day drawing out the stories that surround us this book goes into everyday stories of many descriptions old and new: Both in literature and in that story-laden place and time we call real life.