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June 2005

Drama Bug

Sunday, June 26, 2005

"The dinner hour became either unbearable, or excruciating, depending on my mood. ‘Methinks, kind sir, most gentle lady, fellow siblings all, that this barnyard fowl be most tasty and succulent...'"
—David Sedaris, "The Drama Bug"

Misfits try to fit somewhere in a poignant tale of teenage angst and a delicious piece of self mockery.


Boys

Sunday, June 19, 2005

—Rick Moody, "Boys."

A Gothic tale, and a stream-of-consciousness memoir.


U.F.O.

Sunday, June 12, 2005

"Cherish your old apartments, and pause a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers of your reinventions.
—Colson Whitehead, “Lost and Found.”

The spirit of places is examined by a Japanese fiction and an American architectural memoir.


Man, Woman, Bird

Sunday, June 05, 2005

"She waved her hands in an arc, then brought her hand to her forehead and collapsed onto the linoleum floor. Filippe stood staring from her to the bird. The three of them remained motionless for several moments, frozen into their essential shapes — man, woman, bird."
—Ana Menendez, "The Story of a Parrot."

Symbols illuminate unexamined lives.