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Rabbit Remembered

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

John Updike (1932-2009) John Updike’s Life and Work from Salon © 2009 – 2011, Fred Bubbers. All rights reserved.

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An Old Building and a New Paradigm

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

On an unseasonably warm afternoon in early December of 1982, I was pounding the pavement in Manhattan, trying to find my first job after graduating from college the previous spring.  I had a fresh haircut, my shirt collar itched me, … Continue reading →

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Memoir, Murder, and Epiphany

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

Three summers ago, I was Elizabeth Benedict’s student at the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.  At her evening reading that year, she chose  a then unpublished personal essay about the murder of her … Continue reading →

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Antietam National Battlefield

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

In spring of 2006 I was attempting a rewrite of a twenty-three year old story about a teacher at a prep school in upstate New York. The original story was awful, but there was something about the characters and their … Continue reading →

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