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… up to a whole worth reading, much less rereading. And now comes Andrew Hudgins’s The Joker, part memoir, part joke … where he attended high school and college, and later he studied writing at Iowa and Stanford. Now a professor at The … tradition, are infused with history and religion. They are also often darkly funny. (“Praying Drunk” begins “Our Father …

First Sex   Who would guess that glory would live on a pea plant’s sticky mouth smeared with golden pollen? The monk frees the flowers’ sexes from the calico bonnets and shoos the abbot’s sweet-bottomed bees and with tweezers snips powder from the anthers …

… like an impressive device, and at $259, it should be quite competitive with the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader. B&N … of spokeswoman “Kate” is reminiscent of early iPhone ads (complete with white background). Engadget commenters pointed … Times published a new Kurt Vonnegut story, “ Look at the Birdie ,” which will appear in a book of the same name on Oct. …

Regardless Once, my father took me to the Rockaways   during a hurricane to see how the ocean was behaving, which made my mother furious, whose love  was correct, protective. We saw a wooden jetty crumble. We saw water rise to the boardwalk, felt the …

… be deemed living or otherwise?)—but he does raise some good points. Besides the enduring influence of the three … interesting scenario for what may be the future utility and commercial potential of short stories: The new, post-print … The Question of Bruno ), Jhumpa Lahiri ( Interpreter of Maladies ), Uwem Akpan ( Say You’re One of Them ), and Daniyal …