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The wonderfully idiosyncratic sporting variant achieved extraordinary popularity in rural Iowa
Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
The fringes of fame, the outer purlieus of power, are always much more interesting than the epicenter
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting the golden age of American cinema — I can never bring myself to rewatch Five Easy Pieces
The writer has made a literary reputation on his fluid narratives of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Southern history
Is it possible to love a science, or any branch of knowledge, despite one’s abysmal ignorance thereof?
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
Pat Weissend’s interest in US presidents was sparked in his boyhood by little effigies his aunt gave him
