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“Grandma Goes To Vegas”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—8/16/10—She has evolved amusingly and interestingly from the 21-year-old Cher-tressed, mini-skirted, free-living babe that I married in 1965 to, now in her 60’s, one of…
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“The Long Summer Of The Mockingbird”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—7/26/10—Exactly 50 years ago, on July 11, 1960, Harper Lee’s now universally famous and acclaimed novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. An instant and…
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“The Alaskan Summer: Open Season (For/On?) Tourists”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—7/12/10—When the little girl in the Steven Spielberg movie, “Poltergeist,” looks into the camera and famously says, “They’re back!” (Or is it, “They’re here”?), she…
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“The Peerless Prose Of America’s Summer”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—6/28/10—One of my (many) eccentricities is that, for me, literature has always been seasonal. I’m not sure why this is but, somehow, certain books conjure…
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“Where Have All The Children Gone”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—6/7/10—Anyone who has been to Anchorage, Alaska knows that we are surrounded by mountain ranges, most notably the spectacular Chugach Range, which looms over the…
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“Charlie & Me”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Editor’s Note: this is a previously published piece by Wayne Mergler, none the worse for wear for a bit of time having passed since the writing, and…
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“The Great Swedish Novel & Me”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—5/10/10—Many years ago, when I was studying at the summer session of the University of London, I met an elderly woman schoolteacher from Stockholm with…
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“The Haunted Bookshop Revisited”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—4/26/10—Some years ago, I retired from a quarter of a century of teaching high school English. I was quite young to be retired (still in…
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“Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun?”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—4/12/10—Has anyone else noticed that twins seem to be everywhere these days? In the Anchorage Airport, where I work part-time in the bookstore, I have…
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“Living In The Age Of Pornography”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—3/29/10—A couple of years ago, when I was working in a downtown Anchorage bookstore, two young boys came into the shop to peruse the comic…