Inventing the Internet, part deux
He can’t even email, but McCain, miraculously, created the Blackberry. (Thanks, Max.)
He can’t even email, but McCain, miraculously, created the Blackberry. (Thanks, Max.)
No doubt you’ve seen: Have we reached the end of book publishing as we know it? (Also, a rebuttal.)
Philip Connor’s Diary of a Fire Lookout appears in the current Paris Review, and in State by State he considers Minnesota.
Thanks for the condolences, everyone. Times like these, I like to soothe myself with the devout pessimist’s mantra: Things could always be worse. To that end, I’m rereading As I Lay Dying. My father’s latest intrigue notwithstanding, at least Sister and I don’t have to help him forge a flooded river with our grandpa’s casket. I don’t have much time . . .
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