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Care and Feeding of Your Piano
Even when you think you know your way around a new purchase, it goddamn pays to read the manual.
A Strong Premonition of Death Struck Me This Morning
Some days, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t shake that sense of impending doom.
Salt Crusted on Automotive Glass
Between me, safe in my seat on this bus, and the decadent majesty of the salmon-red cliffs of eastern Utah, a ghost landscape stands sentinel.
Guided by Voices
In the wilds of Upstate New York America, a Belarusian immigrant finds himself torn between the ideologies of family, Joseph Smith . . . and lo-fi indie rock.
Home Like a Shadow
Is camouflaging our family roots with carefully crafted fictions enough to ensure we won’t grow up to be like our parents?
The Cartographer of Dreamland
Even in a bleak Brooklyn childhood, adventure and salvation lie just a vacant lot away.
Genrealities: Five Honest-to-Goodness True Stories of Everyday Humiliations
The literary world loves it some genre trappings. But listen up, kids. Things were not always thus.
The Last Stroke
They say no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned. But that’s not always the whole truth.
