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March 2007
Spirits of Place
Sunday, March 25, 2007
”…”I wanted to be somewhere else. I wanted to be a dark blur, waiting to board the Normandy train, in the smoke-smudged St. Lazare station I wanted a ticket out of my life...
--Stuart Dybek, “Killing Time”
Two prose nocturnes and a soldier’s story contemplate longing, loneliness and home.
Food Fight
Sunday, March 18, 2007
”…”Limp radicchio. Sorry fugu. A blasphemy of baby lamb lettuce frisee endive. A koulibiac made in hell.” For six months he knew her only by her byline, Willa Frank, and by the sting of her adjectives, the derisive thrust of her metaphors, the cold precision of her substantives.
--T.C. Boyle, “Sorry Fugu”
A luscious battle between a passionate chef and an implacable food critic.
Refresh, Refresh
Sunday, March 11, 2007
”…Black bags grew beneath the eyes of the sons and daughters and wives of Crow. Their shoulders stooped, wrinkles enclosing their mouths like parentheses. Our fathers haunted us. They were everywhere.
--Benjamin Percy, “Refresh, Refresh”
A haunting tale of sons without fathers, and selections from Operation Homecoming, in which American soldiers fighting in the Middle East recount their experiences in fiction, poems, memoirs, and letters.
How Do You Measure a Marriage?
Sunday, March 04, 2007
”Call it a potent mixture of arrogance and self hatred, but I believed I was the only Indian man good enough for my Indian wife... I didn’t understand what I was feeling, and I didn’t know what to do.”
--Sherman Alexie, “Do You Know Where I Am?”
The sweet and painful odyssey of a long marriage, and the bitter sadness of one cut short by tragedy.
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