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Dec.25.2012
Since I've been home on Christmas break, I've worked my way through maybe half a dozen back issues of The New Yorker. I've told myself, "Just read the short stories, that's why you subscribe to it anyway," though I can usually get sucked into a feature article or a movie review (especially if...
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Jul.14.2011
At the moment I'm sitting at the dining room table—I've forsaken my desk in the living room for a change of venue the past few weeks because, sometimes, it gets to be too predictable staring at the same wall and, well, it's in the living room, which no longer seems like the best place for getting...