American Landscape #55
August 31, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
I don’t have a book yet, because I don’t have a book contract, because I haven’t written the freaking proposal, but never mind any of those petty details: I have a cover for The 50th State!
Take a look at this. [pauses]
Isn’t it beautiful? Haunting and sad and wistful? I love it. It’s by
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Despairful
August 27, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Did you read the front-page story in the Times yesterday about the pollution in China? Yeah, me neither. I couldn’t bear it. I read the hed and decks and picture captions, and then squinted here and there at a paragraph or two. But it’s really too awful a story to swallow all at once. Or maybe...
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Thank You Joanne
August 26, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
In November of 1999, a FedEx truck pulled up to our old house in Beverly and delivered a late birthday present to C, who had just turned 6. I stashed it away, mistakenly thinking it was an early Christmas present.
But late one afternoon--as we were playing in our dark, skanky basement where W,...
