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Eddy
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By Jonathan WilsonThe truest American and the biggest Allman Brothers fan I know is Phil C., who was the mailman on my street for twenty-five years.
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Marion
By Emma ClineCars the color of melons and tangerines sizzled in cul-de-sac driveways. Dogs lay belly-up and heaving in the shade. It was cooler in the hills, where Marion’s family lived. Everyone who stayed at their ranch was some relative, Marion said, blood or otherwise, and she called everyone brother or sister.
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Anti-war Poem
By Ted BerriganIt’s New Year’s Eve, of 1968, & a time / for Resolution. / I don’t like Engelbert Humpeldink. / I love The Incredible String Band.
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Poetry
A Long Game of Scrabble: A Memoir of Graham Greene
By Michael MeyerI saw a good deal of Graham Greene in the late forties and fifties. Once he mentioned that he was writing a film script. He told me the plot and it sounded pretty boring. I wondered who would want to see it. It turned out to be The Third Man.
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Letters & Essays
Letter from Greenwich Village
By Vivian GornickFor nearly twenty years now Leonard and I have met once a week for a walk, dinner, and a movie, either in his neighborhood or mine. Except for the two hours in the movie, we hardly ever do anything else but talk.
