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… much. Clayton Appleby attached a sturdy snowplow to his sturdiest tractor, and he was usually able to clear the way … and grandmother, and the sight of her red hat and dark head coming across the snow fields was as common as seeing a … of the three and probably the most like her mother. It was also the year Jamie saved up his money and gave his father a …
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… open his door,” says Tenenboym the night manager, when he comes to roust Landsman. Landsman lives in 505, with a view … but so far, to his regret, this claim has proven false. His vision of the past remains unimpaired. “We had to … carries a sour tang of pulped lumber, the smell of boat diesel and the slaughter and canning of salmon. According to …
Criticism
… and music for my iPod? Because those other things don’t come with blurbs on the back. People who love to read are … read the synopses on the back while hoping for a story so compelling we can’t put it down? This is the joy of language and this is why we read. (As an aside, is this not also why we write, to try and evoke that “ahhhh” moment of …
Criticism
… late 1980’s–1990’s “domesticity”—a murky, often sexualized complex of rituals and kin. Importantly, the net of language is never … A preoccupation with the physical details of each other’s bodies and a kind of somatic dullness created by proximity and …
Fiction
… this rather minimal invasion of my privacy. Perhaps I’ve become too American. Or not yet American enough. As I go about … mathematics, and chemistry with an identical number of points. Together we crammed for the last exam—literature—and … minutes, mostly about our children. Her older daughter studied piano at the music college where Marina worked, she …
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… finishers in some ghostly marathon. “Uh-oh,” Kai said. “Company.” “I told you,” Marcus said, “didn’t I? We’re not … not often, he even used it for surfing. “Keep the peace, ladies. Try some focus and detachment. Use your impermanence. … learned in Geometry that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line. “Me too.” “I never felt this way …