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Hadda dream that Zadie Smith asked me to babysit two kittens. She and her husband, an older Jewish man, had somewhere to go. He was
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No It Won’t
I don’t think that quotation means what we think it means. Beauty will not save the world and anyway Dostoevsky didn’t say it and anyways
Take Up Do
In my mid-20s — half an age (mine) and still nearly nil on maturity ago — I noticed a thing that at the time was
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Being That Guy
Once after one of my MFA professors had said the work we were reading was neither good nor original, the student who’d produced the pages
Ark Of The Christian Life
Not God is the phrase they use in AA for realizing we are, well … not God. And no, I’m not an alcoholic. No really
Lyric Lent
Mostly I gave up meat for Lent. Or to put it another way, I gave up meat (mostly) for Lent. And this is how Lent
One Question, Two Answers
How to be really great Your life will be immeasurably great — incalculably awesome — if you put others in place of … you. We
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