Monthly Archives: August 2008
Ready On The First Day
McCain’s VP pick, asking a journalist “what exactly a VP does”.
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Happy 88th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage: The Do-Over
Last night I took down a number of what I think of as “internet angry guy” posts that I’d put up over a few weeks, posts that are the equivalent of me being like my mom and shouting at the … Continue reading
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The Entire Predicament
On the lawn in front of Tamarack, I sit in the sun with my friend Julie Barer, the literary agent. We are neighbors at Tamarack dorm. It’s late afternoon. She’s reading a novel, as is Kathy Pories, of Algonquin Books, … Continue reading
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The Hamburg Eclipse
My friend (and my astrologer) Deirdre Taunton sent me this from Hamburg, Germany tonight. On the other side of the world from her, I’m in my room at Bread Loaf, in the Tamarack dorm at the edge of campus, which … Continue reading
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Fiction Prompt #2
Take a particularly important memory of yours and make yourself a minor character. Tell the story from the point of view of someone else in the memory. A brother, mother, best friend, a waiter, a bartender, the ticket guy, the … Continue reading
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Home Again
I sit at the gate in Athens airport, Gate A5, waiting for my flight to London, and make the drawing above. The plane is delayed, and it occurs to me that as soon as I left Sifnos, everything that has … Continue reading
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All Of The Titles For This Don’t Match How Bad It Is
South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War. A half-century later, the Seoul government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has … Continue reading
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