Adam Fleming Petty

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  • Dec 12, 2025
    The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I slunk back to my Indiana hometown and got a job at one of the joint-replacement factories there. For some improbable...
  • Oct 20, 2025
    When I was a teenager, I tried and failed to get into the Beats. I checked out Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems from the library, made my way through...
  • Aug 12, 2025
    Keith Gessen, the middle-aged and reasonably happy (or so I assume) literary man, once wrote an essay for the New York Times titled “In Search of the Great...
  • May 27, 2025
    In the issue dated September 13, 2001, Newsweek magazine ran a photograph of a firefighter carrying a young girl to safety. “Horror at Home,” the caption read,...