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This year
Procedure in Plain Air
"Later, after the men in jumpsuits had driven up and begun digging the hole, Stevick would remember that the guy on the bench beside him had been gazing puzzledly into the cone of his large coffee and had tried to interest him in the question of whether the café’s brew aftertasted of soap or not. This day was gray, with heavy portents of rain."
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2008
2007
Shouts & Murmurs: The Wisdom of Children: Humor: The New Yorker
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table
2006
The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
This looks incredibly interesting on the nature of academic culture and why it even exists (still!).
