Archive for June, 2009

Lorrie Moore fiction

Bookmarked: a new Lorrie Moore story, “Childcare,” appears in the latest issue of The New Yorker. (See also.)

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Pulling Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain off the shelf

My father-in-law — a warm, funny, and brilliant man of idiosyncratic passions, the only person I know who’s read Twain’s Is Shakespeare Dead? and enjoys it as much as I do — was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last fall. It’s a terrible disease (and rare, except for those who, like him, were exposed to Agent Orange), but treatments have improved . . .

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