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Marjan Kamali
An interview with Marjan Kamali, author of the forthcoming novel The Stationery Shop. ...
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Stepping Back: Election Blues on Veterans Day
Over the long Veterans Day weekend, I’m hitting the final lap on the world’s most procrastinated thesis. I’m focusing on Virginia Woolf—specifically, on how she writes about World ...
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The Inaccessibility of the Lives of Others
Nobody has ever catcalled me. God knows I’ve tried: short shorts, no top, the whole caboodle. But however much I’m “asking for it,” it never happens. I can’t ...
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Oliver Sacks: A Hero’s Journey
ZEITGEIST On a sunny day in an outdoor cafe in mid-August, I found myself thoroughly absorbed in Oliver Sacks’s memoir, On the Move: A Life, sometimes laughing out ...
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Tiny Destroyer of Worlds
A child's excitement and ingenuity create a fiery disaster ...
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Allen Ginsberg: An Encounter
When I interviewed Allen Ginsberg I said something right off that startled him, though what I said was simple and not raunchy in the least, as if raunchy ...
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David Sedaris is Sick of Himself
David Sedaris and I were riding down Commonwealth Avenue in the backseat of his media escort’s Chevy Impala. I was trying to take notes without getting carsick, ...
