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… Louisiana Hayride, By Harnett T. Kane. William Morrow and Company. $3.00. Huey Long dies on page 136 of this 455-page book. To go on engagingly … of the 1920’s from which we are gradually rescuing our morals, tastes, manners, dress, music, literature, economics, …

… magazine and peers down at the puzzle. “Ergo,” she says and points at twenty-​seven down. “Ramrod,” she says and points … Felix would stop believing the boy was his. Felix is a comedian, though he hasn’t told a joke onstage in almost a … his mother “sexless” to a group of his cigar-​smoking buddies, a word his father would pretend to not recognize when …

… they’d sent him home. The nurse had warned him no more false calls and patted his back to reassure him that death … Your mother’s worried. He waves at me from the car to come on. Listen, I’ve got to go. I can hear her cracking … see my father through the window banging on the counter. He points toward the bathroom door, which has a yellow pole …

… why the title of the story collection, This Close, did not come from the title of one of the stories? I can tell you a … in a book. It must be much more confusing now, with so many websites and bloggers asking for books. It might be very … I write what I am interested in, and hope it will find an audience. I don’t know that it would make a lot of sense to do …

… Kyrgyzstan for this observation mission, not everyone welcomes the observers. That will make our job more … it was not a popular language. In fact, those of us who studied English instead of German or French were sometimes … here, in a former communist country. At one of the checkpoints there’s a fuss, and Saule gets out with the driver …