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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...