My father was on his long taxi journey when my mother said she might have a crush on someone. “Someone who doesn’t do quixotic things for quick money,” she flounced. […]
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The other day, for no particular reason I can think of, I mentioned to my middle-aged daughter in conversation that I had been cleared for “secret” when I was in […]
Read MoreWhen we asked Christopher Merrill—a portion of whose prose collaboration with Marvin Bell appears in our Winter 2013 issue—to tell us what he had been reading as of late, he […]
Read More—After Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool,” with thanks to Terrance Hayes My friend said I wasn’t fat but she was, and we would go on that way, […]
Read MoreJell-O Pudding Pops that preserve the wavelike peaked shape of your lips. Little Debbie Fudge Brownies that break in half along a groove in the frosting. Summer sausages like No. […]
Read MoreThe Concord Monitor recently ran a two-part interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin—here are parts one and two—and we were reminded of the wonderful package of photos Maxine sent […]
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Read MoreI miss the grain of Ralph, and the grain of Ed, and Trixie’s grain, and especially the grain of Alice, whose pretty, pointed body would never, ever land on the […]
Read MoreI. On any afternoon in Stein’s grocery store parking lot in Troy, Montana, a truck—American made, four-wheel drive, dented and dirt-streaked, axles riding high—will pull in and park. A young […]
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