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“The Beautiful Bowel Movement” [by John Updike]
Though most of them aren’t much to write about— mere squibs and nubs, like half-smoked pale cigars, the tint and stink recalling Tuesday’s meal, the texture loose and soon dissolved—this one, struck off in…
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“Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Sailor on the Water or in the Air” (by Laura Orem)
I had decided that I would not want to put together a "reader" which would contain such gems of literary discovery that other professional literary men would tell each other how clever I am;…
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On Overdrafts [Don Share]
There's been a lot of talk about Barack Obama being a President who reads and knows about poetry. I've taken all this with a few grains of salt, but was quite interested to see…
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“I like to think of my life as a pinpoint of meaningless biological certainty, but swirling around that is a maelstrom of vaguely reassuring, vaguely artistic ritual.” [by Heather Christle]
Facebook has evolved. It is a place to take quizzes. We need quizzes to help us understand ourselves and which president we are. It is hard to think without quizzes. This is why I…
