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On Leaving Home
… / Flickr   The following post is part of our online companion to our  Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … neither of which seemed available to me in New York. I also knew if I stayed in publishing, I’d eventually stop … college with a degree in Government and Afro-American Studies, and after I returned home, my mother immediately …
Beaches In Winter
… Beaches In Winter We know our dreams as we come to know our weaknesses, with the soft familiarity of … I suspect I will continue dreaming of them until the day I die. As dreams go, the prospect is not particularly … illusion by making me acknowledge my limitations. But it also soothed, as nature is supposed to soothe. One can …
Inventing Emily Dickinson
… varying portraits of her could well be collected in a comparative volume such as Samuel Schoenbaum produced in … the late 1970’s there have been an increasing number of studies of the relationship between Dickinson’s femininity and … Dickinson hunting, but his critical vocabulary continually points to the poet’s sexual status at the same time that it …
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The Immortals
… then, to their horror, he told them. He had temporarily become another person. An insufferable person, he later … friends, not since college. But still … When your ex-wife dies—when she is decapitated —wouldn’t someone do the … him—a boxy suitcase about the length and width of a briefcase but much deeper. Inside was a variety of cleaning …
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Disney’s Snow White at 75
… projected picture. It is the collective energy of a live audience. But it paled in comparison to the … Reade, this is the audience who mostly filled the theater’s 268 seats. When it came to children under three feet tall, … onscreen presence with respect to the character’s age. He points out that, at the start of the Grimm story, Snow White …
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The Last Trapshoot
… around joking about how well they planned to shoot clay birdies out of the sky. The man who shot most of the ten clay … slicked-back brown hair, who always had an eye for the ladies, grinned from ear to ear, and struck a match. All the … house on Lake Huron.” “Then why don’t they stay there. Why come back here?” Gertie asked. “Well, you know, he comes to …
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