This summer I have been reading John Cheever. I have seen him called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” – a title that might also fit another John (Updike). I grew up in the suburbs, though a more modern version than Cheever’s, but I still can identify with his people and places. The stories are middle-classContinue reading “My Cheever Summer”
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Addictions
I don’t have an addictive personality. Tried but never got addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. Addiction is defined as not having control over doing, taking, or using something to the point where it could be harmful to you. I read the passage below by John Updike and it made me think that I doContinue reading “Addictions”
Those Early Stories
I picked up a copy of The Early Stories, a collection of short stories by John Updike, from one of the Little Libraries that people have put up in my neighborhood. I pass three of them on my usual walk and I always look in them and “leave a book, take a book” about onceContinue reading “Those Early Stories”
Writers As Thieves
Writers… “We’re all thieves, I suppose.”
A Refutation of the Conservation of Matter
A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter.