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Ultra-reading: How the Beat Poets’ Hard-drinking Meditations on Nature are Connected to Athletes’ Workouts in the Wild 1 Aug 2011 | 10:52 am
Follow-up to the Born to Run Summary One Saturday morning in June I woke up remembering that somewhere between eastside cocktails brimming with cucumber slices and tequila shaken ...
From the Big Apple to Green Apple 15 Jul 2011 | 10:41 am
Bookstore: Green Apple Books Mode of Transport: Planes, Trains and Automobiles - or Virgin America, accidental over-sized SUV rentals and running shoes To Address: 560 Clement Street San F...
Faraway Places 4 Jul 2011 | 03:03 am
When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea. Little Alice grew up in an Atlantic seaport town, listening to the shipping tales of her artist g...
Ultra-reading: An Introduction 26 Jun 2011 | 10:13 am
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen During my adolescence my parents subscribed to Outside magazine. Maybe they still do. It is consistently one...
Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work 15 Jun 2011 | 06:17 am
This is a somewhat unusual review of Jason Brown's short fiction collection. I’ve been thinking a lot about memory. Maybe because this is the first summer I’ve spent away from...
Death Is Not an Option 1 Apr 2011 | 12:58 pm
"I read Rivecca all the way home... you're going to love it." That's the message I received from my friend Lisa after she accompanied me to the award night for The Story Prize. I attended the event a...
On Keeping a Notebook 16 Mar 2011 | 02:02 pm
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify ...
The Woman Question 11 Mar 2011 | 07:21 pm
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir I'll be the first to admit I have a tendency t...
Against the Current 7 Mar 2011 | 02:35 pm
It is a terrible thing, even for an indifferent person like me, to see the bleakness lurking in someone else's life. Calm, reflective, poignant. The second author, Yiyun Li, who read from her collect...
Magical Realism 4 Mar 2011 | 01:57 am
At sunset Pheko poaches a chicken breast and lays a stack of green beans beside it. Out the window flotillas of rainclouds gather over the Atlantic. Alma stares into her plate as if at some incomprehe...
