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The Late Poetics of Freddie Freeman
Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos/Getty Images As of the time of this writing, it is the middle of the fourth inning of Game 3 of the World Series and the Philadelphia Phillies are up four-zip against the Houston Astros. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, 2022. While writing...
Way Up There in Blue
“Amongst the Winnebagos” (Alice Stone-Collins) Back in September 2021, Alice and I traveled to Wyoming to see her installation work at Sheridan College. On Friday afternoon of our trip, as we walked the grounds at Little Bighorn in southern Montana, senior defense...
Not Steve
A musician friend texted me after episode three of The Bear. We talked about art and growth. It is one thing to improve alone. How rare is it to be part of an ensemble where everyone elevates? He plays jazz saxophone and makes a million different decisions on when to...
Gone Swimming
Photo by Ryan Loughlin on Unsplash On Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: It is August 1972 and Hunter S. Thompson wants to go for a swim. After eight months of covering the presidential campaign, crisscrossing the country, and faced with the prospect of young...
Word for Word
Toward the end of Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Bullet in the Brain,” Anders, the doomed book critic, recalls a time before everything reminded him of something else. The story’s magic resides in Wolff naming what Anders does not recall. The list of seventeen items...