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The Final (God Help Me) Frontier (or, Still Seeking Salvation via Facebook Marketplace)
“For weeks, now, I’ve been merrily scrolling through Facebook Marketplace for things my business partners then have to go fetch for our booth at The Rock House Antiques. The latest ‘thing,’ a snowy…
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The Pillow Museum: Stories, by Claire Bateman
“Claire Bateman, the dark-haired American woman of a certain age who sometimes sits across from me discussing current events and the state of the union bears no resemblance at all to the universe-sized,…
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Amoir & The Snail Folk (or, Continuing Adventures on Facebook Marketplace)
“’The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.’ I don’t often open a piece of writing with a quote from Woodrow Wilson, but there…
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Chester Drawers & The Piedmont Hoochie-Coochie: Facebook Marketplace
“For me, it all began with Chester Drawers, but let me go back even further, to another befuddled listener, James Thurber, whose maid, Delia, announced to him one Christmas, ‘They are here with…
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Our Evil, Our Shadow, Our Trump: 2016-2024
“This past year, and over the entire course of the US presidential campaign, we have all borne witness, whether conscious, less conscious, or unconscious, to yet another dangerous dance with Wotan, with the…
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On the Road, Again
“Jonathan Raban, another gifted traveler, has addressed himself to why travel books and travelers who write are of such abiding interest. He might have been speaking of Leigh Fermor: ‘He is a creature…
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My Athenian Tough Guy Columns
“Emil—a poet in black and white, as well as in Demotic Greek—and I laughed and scribbled our way through the composition of my four Manghes (‘Tough Guy’ ) Columns featuring the hapless Athenian…
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Trump’s Taterhill Hat: Our Continuing, Of Necessity, Un-Civil American War
“I had known this man since my birth. We were blood relatives. But I had never indeed known him. Suddenly, he was as ‘other’ as an other can be. I am certain now,…
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My Very Favorite Mark Addison Kershaw Cartoons
“I nag Mark Addison Kershaw. Every month. I nag all of Hubris’s Contributors, but I single Mark out for special attention. Because he makes me smile, always, and, many times, he makes me…
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Poet Claire Bateman’s Wonders of The Invisible World
“To my mind, Bateman’s writing, which defies categorization (see Nin Andrews’ and Kathryn Nuernberger’s blurbs), is as close to non-fiction as poetry gets if, by non-fiction, you mean quantum mechanics. But hers is…