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Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish
… night outside staining the deck. The night my grandmother dies we have to do something. The night my grandmother dies I dream of my dead friend Chris. He gives me a fish and … across his chest before I can show him the Friday ladies in hats, the Friday candy store, the whiskered carp …
Tennessee’s War of the Roses
… peace of mind, then, it is fitting that American intellectuals come to some ordered point of view about that peculiar … Shirt was receding into the background and the “damned Brigadiers” were losing their appeal as vote-getters. The common …
March 17, 2005 - VQR Nominated for Two National Magazine Awards
… with which writing, reporting, editing and design all come together to command readers’ attention and fulfill the magazine’s unique editorial mission. Also named as finalists in the Under 100,000 Circulation … literary core.” More information can be found at the ASME’s website. …
The Press in Petticoats
… that would be neither the Telegram nor the World, but a combination of the two, “retaining the best features of … slides on the screen between Alms, but finally the audiences came to resent this practice, and it was a picayune … look for it. But they won’t now—they’ll turn the radio dials and listen to the Songbird of the East in Heartwarming …
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Gotcha!
… from professors who take a dim view of my offbeat way of communicating. I use the media as a conduit to my audience to get them thinking about the media. How’d you get … dogs and cats and other large animals. One of our talking points was that “a nude horse was a rude horse.” Buck Henry …
Counteracting the Powers of Darkness
… was distrusted—stews, chowders, casseroles. One of her commonest utterances was the world vile! stretched out to … with his finger. Not only was I a dinosaur freak, I was also tired of sleeping with a beat-up old hand puppet that I … my mother. She once removed a thermometer from my mouth, studied its findings, muttered 103.6 and slapped me across the …
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