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Paleontology...
...or Something Like It
Apr 24
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Gary Allen
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Flaubert's Parrot
A Confession of sorts: I am a binge-reader. Okay, that’s not much of a confession; most readers will admit to the same addiction. We find a writer we…
Apr 20
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Gary Allen
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In Conversation...
Most of the time, I’m sitting silently—either reading a book or staring at my laptop in the hope that a new book will manifest itself there. Sometimes…
Apr 18
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Gary Allen
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Sentimental Education
(with apologies to Flaubert)
Apr 12
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Gary Allen
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Vanishing Acts
This week, The New Yorker posted a cartoon that drew its power from a long and familiar angst. The drawing showed a man, sitting in bed, reading a story…
Apr 6
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Gary Allen
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April, the Cruel
Two days ago, the first of the new month, a weather report warned of a big snowstorm coming later in the week. My first thought was, “Nice try… I’m not…
Apr 3
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Gary Allen
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March 2024
"As an Illustration..."
Years ago—maybe forty or so—I had a neighbor who used those three words the way other people might say, “Ummmmm…” while she was assembling her thoughts…
Mar 31
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Gary Allen
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Another Try...
Last September (in It’s Un-American...), I posted a little story that exploited every stereotype I could squeeze into one little story. The original…
Mar 23
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Gary Allen
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And So It Continues...
I seem to be thinking about Walt Whitman a lot, lately. Possibly because it’s almost time for the herring to migrate up Black Creek, just a few miles…
Mar 16
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Gary Allen
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And So It Continues...
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False Modesty
I recently got a message from Goodreads; someone liked a review I had posted there. Curious, I was anxious to discover the title of the book for which…
Mar 9
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Gary Allen
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Revision
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass began as a slim volume, full of promise (as Emerson noted in a famous letter to the young poet). Of course, Whitman did…
Mar 3
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Gary Allen
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February 2024
Retrospective
Last year, I lost one of my oldest (in duration, not in age) friends. I recently learned that there is going to be a kind of memorial exhibition of his…
Feb 24
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Gary Allen
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