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...kind of wander through life unaware. He puts me very much at ease. He's very laid back about the whole thing. It's kind of just like hanging out onstage with your buddy." - On working with Letterman (Fort Worth Star Telegram, March...
Whether you're one of those Windy City residents who favor Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics or you believe the whole project is just ripe for Capone-style corruption, know this: when you're standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, it's easy to imagine an idyllic Olympic experience. With Grant Park and the tip of the Willis (né Sears) Tower at your back, gaze out at the site of the planned rowing venue. Instead of the geese you hear honking, imagine coxswains barking at their boat mates. A comfortable breeze blows in your face...
...bounds of plausibility. And there's ultimately something strangely toylike about the little world of Her Fearful Symmetry. Everything in it--the apartment, the cemetery, the two sets of twins, the crossword-composing, obsessive-compulsive classicist upstairs--is fashioned with such twiddly bespoke neatness, such fussy perfection, that the whole affair is like a tragedy performed by exquisite dolls: lovely and precious and lifeless. Only the spectral Elspeth feels real. And what does it say about a novel that the one character who feels alive is a ghost...
...actually allows me to listen. I’m not tempted to check Gmail; in fact, I don’t even bring my computer. I’m there because I want to be. In an ideal world, of course, the same would apply to college as a whole...
...best day of the week not because of God or church or anything like that but because of HUDS's "bread day" extravaganza in each dining hall for dinner. But while bread day has been given its due amount of praise, perhaps the most delicious part of the whole enterprise (a subtle little substance called Honey Butter--that's right, capitalize it!) often goes without mention...