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Notes on Current Books, Winter 2002
… the beginning (for example, they “eliminated” Republican soldiers and politicians who opposed them, and encouraged the … with new bits. Second, that although close attention points up many remaining gaps in our knowledge, intimate … Book Clubs , edited by Arthur Krystal. The Free Press $26 In 1951 the Readers’ Subscription Book Club was founded …
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An American Family
… of the tiny West African country. In those days, I welcomed just about any and all inquiries that helped me deepen … to salvage, and we lived there until she finished her studies that summer. Over the next few years, we moved from … to convince my new country of my body’s value—and that it also deserved peace? When my father and uncles passed down …
On Earth
… (it is his birthday next week), then go for a walk. We will also visit our father’s grave today, exactly six months … had been no funeral; Dad always said no one would bother to come. Tucking Patrick’s birthday present under my arm, I … tried to communicate with Dad, a horribly impatient man who died before we could say good-bye. “Sorry I’m late,” Patrick …
Rogues, Hypocrites and Average Americans
… Unfortunately, it has already been told—more than twice. He points no moral, he says. His account indeed is pointless. … on the aspiring ‘Nineties, already an assured literary and commercial success. Many a reader, fascinated by its nervous … is a post-mortem examination. It tells ye what a counthry died iv. But I’d like to know what it lived iv.” Mr. …
Roses
… sexual. She has no idea how long he has been staring. The audience for the lecture is arranged in a horseshoe around the … handsome man. The speaker continues to drone facts, to make points, to pose rhetorical questions. When the demonstration … on the bureau. He walks over to them and examines her briefcase, slim, expensive, of black leather with brass …
If You Didn’t Kill the Cuckoo Bird
… role. Still, in the midst of our same-colored clothes, our common smell, and our exasperating lack of individuality; … “So she wasn’t dead.” “Dead?” “You said before that she died before you started school. You spoke of her funeral, … the veins stuck out and I held it over the water.” “Funerals. They are the most conventional and comical ceremony we …
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