Gone Swimming

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

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...