Ah, the airport…who hasn’t been privy to tearful goodbyes or joyful hellos at the gates, long lines at the security checks, and overtired souls with delayed or canceled flights? Well, I ran across an interesting article about a man who is documenting just these sorts of experiences. It seems that author Alain de Botton has [...]
The July 2009 issue of Esquire magazine arrived today. On its cover is an artfully nude Bar Refaeli. Nude except for the words scrawled all over her body, that is – words from a Stephen King short story published within the magazine’s pages. “Morality” is a dirty, rough story of desperate measures taken during a [...]
This week’s additions to the collection seemed to contain a number of novels dealing with love and loss (such as Enger’s Undiscovered Country and Maloy’s Every Last Cuckoo). Among these is Emily Chenoweth’s Hello Goodbye. In it, Helen Hansen, a mother and wife in the prime of her life, is diagnosed with an inoperable brain [...]
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