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The Problem of Human Consumption
… Consumption Paul, in this case, is a widower. His wife died thirteen years ago. He kept their daughter away as much … has not taken a new job or dated a pretty secretary. To become unstuck has proved more than he can manage. He took his … of what her father might do, and a little frightened, also, of what her father might not do, that he may be too …
The Green Room, Autumn 1984
… The Green Room, Autumn 1984 Whatever the outcome of the 1984 presidential campaign, the first item on … created great fiction in his novels and short stories; he also created so many tales about himself that it finally … department, where his courses include poetry writing and studies in poetry. His poems have appeared in the Hudson Review …
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An Appreciation of Alice Munro
… twenty years, the number of spectacular Canadian writers to come up has been amazing. And this has taken place while … were smaller and closer to me. Alice Munro is from Wingham—also a very small town—but located in southwestern Ontario, … And Munro will show you the small-town and the big-city points of view. I believe Munro understands the rural-urban …
Easter in Gaza
… Two more policemen stand at the entrance to the compound that houses a small Greek Orthodox monastery, a … well-heeled, unveiled women and dapper gentlemen in the audience, and by the fact that several women offered to shake … of the church. I remember a lot of clanging away with cymbals and bells. I got bored pretty fast. The opening of the …
Hero in Reverse
… because like Jefferson he was a penman rather than a soldier—he wrote “The Crisis.” His words in the days of … and the temper of Paine.” (The soundest evidence points to the chastity, and apparently the impotence, of … writer of sorts, informed the readers of Blackwood’s in 1826 that Paine “is held in utter abomination throughout …
Excursion
… Excursion Coming up behind him on the terrace, Jo felt the urge to … had never cared for each other, and she guessed this studied inwardness of his was a way of reminding her of her … his own when he was on the move. He’d been expounding on points of historical and architectural interest as they …
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