
For people who read like they eavesdrop. Every other week, you'll receive a note from me about something fascinating (manifestation scamming, belugas, chili cheese fries, etc). Also included: Books with Friends, a read-a-long. (First up: Rebecca.)
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As I am wont to do, I began to puzzle over my newsletter. As I puzzled, a little field-mouse voice piped up, staring up at me from the floor by the oven. It said, “You’re looking for something smaller.”
“Small like yourself,” I said to the...
She always had such soulful eyes, I said to him later.
He said, That’s how I knew she was gone. Her eyes.
Our dog had died with her eyes open—we kept trying to close them, but they remained stubbornly open, her flat dark eyes staring out...
my youtube history is full of chess games
Lisa Lane, US Women’s Chess Champion, playing at the Marshall Chess Club, NYC in 1960
Facing upward, toward the white ceiling with a large and indelicate crack that looks somewhat like a dinosaur with a very long head, is an anemone in a vase in my office. It’s already dying, the petals withering in apology. I’m sorry I coul...
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Writer. Author of The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) & The Border of Paradise (2016). Best American Short Stories. Clue in the New York Times crossword.
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