Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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The Time of My Leaf

ESSAY

Traster files another report from the bucolic burbs.

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The Merry-Go-Round is Beginning to Taunt Me: An Exchange Between Cris Mazza and Davis Schneiderman

ESSAY

Davis Schneiderman and Cris Mazza discuss book publicity, the perils of the new media universe, leprechauns, and dogs.

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My Fortune Told in Five Acts

ESSAY

Sabine Heinlein finds out what New York fortunetellers and therapists have in common: They don’t know what they’re talking about.

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Excerpt from Repeat Until Rich

MEMOIR

Josh Axelrad counts cards professionally, loses 3 Gs, and denies himself the comfort of home and the Comfort Inn, respectively.

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Singing Before Breakfast

MEMOIR

If you look forward to Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, you’re probably going to hate me.

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Charles Dickens, Meet Dinaw Mengestu, part II

3G1B REVIEWS

I greatly appreciated DM’s fine remark that you have to be in a relationship to understand that locations can become “haunted” (my word) with decisive emotional events that have taken place there. The writer is talking about the couple’s home. And aren’t there places in your own home, in my case one is the end of a cabinet in the dining room, where you will never forget what was said there? The atmosphere lingers, like a faint smoke or an odd feint of light.

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Why I Love New York

TRAVEL

Kris Saknussemm’s personal highlights of New York.

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The Talented Mr. Clegg

NONFICTION REVIEWS

A review of the reviews of Bill Clegg’s Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.

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My Life in Midtown

ESSAY

Amy Shearn strolls down the street in Manhattan and sees some things.

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