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Snowbound

In honor of Snowmageddon and Snowmageddon Part Deux, here are some books to read while snowbound: Alive Piers Paul Read. Harper Perennial 2005, Paperback, 398 pages, $8.45 Stranded in the Andes, cannibalism ensues. Desperate Passage Ethan Rarick. Oxford University Press, … Continue reading

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Gifts

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading

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Hangover Theory of Economics

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had … Continue reading

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Doomed Couples

In 1960, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award.  The title story of the collection is a novella that tells of the doomed romance between Neil Klugman, a recent class college graduate who works in a library and … Continue reading

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