So what’s the deal?

Hey Homosapiens! is a micro-press with a difference.

It was D.H Lawrence who said:

The sympathetic heart is broken.

Sometimes I think this may be true.  There is much cynicism in the world….but then I read something great and I know its not true at all.

Susan Sontag said:

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Maya Angelou said:

All great artists draw from the same essence:  the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

And Arnold Bennet said:

Is it nothing to you to be led out of the tunnel on to the hillside, to have all your senses quickened, to be invigorated by the true savour of life, to feel your heart beating under that correct necktie.

And this:

I will tell you what literature is!  No — I only wish I could.  But I can’t.  No one can. Gleams can be thrown on the secret, inklings given, but no more.

It’s magic.  That’s what it is.  It’s about feeling that feeling, that exact one, and knowing you are not crazy.  It mends the inside of the head, and from there…. gold dust, everywhere!

Joseph Conrad said:  Literature appeals…

…to that latent feeling of fellowship with all creation – and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together all humanity – the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

Enough said!

Hey Homosapiens! is run by writer, Gabrielle Blondell.  It exists to draw lovers of good fiction and non-fiction together.  Savour the book reviews, blogposts and short stories and perhaps mend the sympathetic heart.