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… I have changed most names and identifying details. I have also, at times, combined certain characters to allow for narrative sense. I … genre fiction but genre memoir in which drug addicts die and in certain ways. Though the real Lilly supposedly …

… to respond to its information, insights, wisdom, and proposals, if, indeed, they would incline to read it at all. … colleges and universities have over the last half century become almost haphazard collections of unrelated disciplines. … contemptuous of other areas, which tend to function like medievally insular fiefdoms. Very few English faculty seem to …

… a nice appreciation of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech , now released as a book titled This Is … ineluctable and unanswerable question: Why? Bissell also draws attention to Wallace’s invocation of the cliché … any references to suicide because that’s the way the author died. (This modification of the text also raises the …

… evader, at first outraged at his son’s “cowardice,” at last comes to understand him, attends a gathering of war … they told her of the gentleness and humanity of American soldiers. The Vietnam war was especially brutal because … to our own affairs instead of concerning ourselves with “goals for Americans,” we are too convinced of the benignancy …

… each side a world whose beauties had grown banal, old, and died reverts to charm. Is it mere dream, that gleam in mud …