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Updike for Beginners
I took the ugly one. At Canoe Club, one of the few bars in Hanover, New Hampshire, a town that could use a drink, my friend Josh and I had spent most of the evening talking with the bartender Sarah...
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Based on a True Story
“Like Lot’s wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful—our own innocence.” Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang On the occasions he...
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How to Go On a Road Trip
Dartmouth College On Easter weekend of your freshman year at Dartmouth, you and two friends, Rick and John, decide to rent a car and drive to New Haven, CT, where you once attended a summer program...
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Four’s A Crowd
On the second story of a two-story apartment, my girlfriend and I lounged on a bed with another couple, all of us sloppy from too much domestic beer. Porn flickered on a television in the corner. Music...
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Wing Women Of The Redneck Riviera
On a hot summer day just outside of Andalusia, AL, I rummaged through a trashcan until, triumphantly, I found a plastic sausage wrapper, its label dripping the gristly juice of various pig parts. Dog...
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Accidental Adulthood
On a winter night in New York six years ago, two friends and I were in the back of a cab, heading from one bar to another, when our conversation was interrupted by a loud thump. All of us looked up in...
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