September 2010
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On the night President Obama announced that...
“I don’t think the troops are heroes,” I said to Becky. It felt weird, saying it out loud, and I immediately backtracked. “I mean, I’m sure some of them are to some people, but I don’t think enlisting automatically makes you a hero.”
I recalled a conversation I once had with a friend whose cousin had died in Iraq. “I can’t talk to people who...
August 2010
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Short Stories
1. There are two kinds of people, he thought; the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.
2. Five more minutes, she told herself. She asked the waiter for another basket of bread and pushed the rose closer to the edge of the table for maximum...
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I saw three movies on the airplane. I wouldn't...
Dear John (dir. Lasse Hallström) is a movie about two impossibly beautiful impossibly boring young lovers who have to write letters to each other because nobody else could ever understand what it’s like to be so so beautiful and so so boring.
The Ghost Writer (dir. Roman Polanski) is about a group of Brooklyn kids who solve mysteries with the help of a magical invisible word spirit. What?...
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Dan Bern -...