At Twenty-Four
Donald Hall said, "At sixteen the poet reads Whitman and Homer and wants to be immortal. Alas, at twenty-four the same poet wants to be...
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Curiosity
Curiosity killed the cat. But originally (sixteenth century, Shakespeare, Wikipedia, just go with it), the saying was "Care," meaning...
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Adam says: try to praise the mutilated world. Well, you know what? Just this moment my throat is a little dry, from shouting undeserved...
New Season
Summer begins on the Monday after graduation, when campus suddenly empties. In the morning, walking across the Quad to my office, the air...
Scenes from Motherboy: Paris
On the first night in Paris with my mother, we ate dinner in the basement of a restaurant called Le Coude Fou in the Marais. She had...
Road
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. I looked at the snow-covered roads. The snow hadn’t quite filled their ruts. Looked up at the trees...
Uber
Dear Uber -- Thank you for inviting comments. The continued participation of Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick on the president's Business...
Script for Calling Congress
Hello. Well. Hi. Hey there. You guessed it, I'm nervous. I haven't done this before. And frankly, I don't feel a hundred percent awesome...
Dry
Oliver grew up in Cambria, a suburb on the outskirts of Chicago. Later, he remembered watching his mother load his father into the Deck...
Dumb Day
It is, by any account imaginable, the most ridiculous outfit that I own. He made me bring it all out here in the cart. I wanted to bring...
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