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On Learning Ada Lovelace’s Father Was Lord Byron Is programming not a kind of poetry? Ones and zeros of the heart. The language of unseen relations between things, Lovelace once said. If I have to send another email today, I will liquefy. I will hold my …
… of all yourself Alone in sunlight in the afternoon. Nothing dies in the earth among the roots: Thrust down your hand and …
Criticism
… of possibly publishing a short story collection. Agents come to visit, telling us, “it’s all about the novel now. … turning to short stories, this means that it’s time for a comeback. In 2009, short story collections like Wells … to publish fiction only once a year. I checked Grisham’s website if there was a direct reason why he switched to …
… feet long, and weighed more than half a ton. Because of a commendable phlegmatism of nature, a mule had been pressed … and permitted himself to be dragged, yet after a time, so accommodating was our pace, he propelled himself along with … life after the obsequies. The term of their natural life equals or exceeds that of man. I have raised a great many …
Profiles
… If there were a pantheon of take-no-prisoners pit-bull diehards, Diane Jessup would occupy a prominent place in it. … to save every little doggie in the world,” she wrote on her website. “I love the breed enough to believe in culling. And … Then I realized what had changed: It was joy, entirely unselfconscious joy. Every time one of her dogs made the correct …
… The Birthday It is 3 a.m. at the Maywood Street Co-op when Eddie finds the sea anemone floating in the bathtub. He is … friends of friends who take one hit of acid and never come back. Coherence, he knows, can slip away from you. … to Diana what he had looked like as a very young boy, and also what he would look like as a very old man, when …