Don Begs To Be Alone
Don Draper wants to be alone. Episode: Shut The Door…Have a Seat Mad Men Season Three This is the one episode where a casual viewer of Mad Men could sit down and see every possible angle of the show.…
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Alma by Junot Diaz
The third story is called “Alma” and it’s a short lyric burst of a couple of pages. Reading it reminded me of the most awesome sort of firecracker from my youth, the cherry bomb.…
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The Average American Marriage by Chad Kultgen
I can’t remember when I first fell in love with the Average American Male, Mr. Kultgen’s first book. Regardless, it’s many years later, and in The Average American Marriage we meet up again with the narrator from that same book and he is still the video game loving, high velocity masturbator that gladly objectifies women, while delivering deadpan descriptions of the sad world around him.…
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The Sun, the Moon and the Stars by Junot Diaz
Since the narrator of the first story in the Diaz collection, This is How You Lose Her starts off “I’m not a bad guy.”…
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Love is a Canoe by Ben Schrank
It has been a very long time since I finished a novel and yelled, “that was awesome!” When you savor a book, carry it with you, let it steal moments of your day, stop yourself from finishing it, you’re lucky.…
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Claire Messud The First Chapter
The Woman Upstairs, the first chapter, in first person, first line of the new novel: “How angry am I?” I think you can take the question straight.…
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because the night by Tessa Hadley
One of the reasons I’m fond of Tessa Hadley’s fiction is that the writer appeals to my nesting instinct. Hadley can outline a domestic situation in a few deft lines, like Matisse can take a few simple strokes of black ink on white paper and show you a beautiful woman.…
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