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Pandemic

  • Tree illness as metaphor

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    What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?

  • The big beige books

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    The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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    A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

  • Kill your darlings

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    Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.

  • Dinosaurs + dolphins

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.

  • A can-can dancer performs a Christmas tree

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.

  • How Americans edit sex out of my writing

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    What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.

  • It wasn’t the beer

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    How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?

  • The final frontier

    The final frontier

    New short fiction from the author of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. A story about what’s ours and what’s not ours.