“Drink was destroying my life. Tobacco only shortens it, with the best parts over anyway.”
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Small-Town New Hampshire’s Battle with Bears and Liberty
Grafton, New Hampshire has a bear problem, but how much of the problem is the result of human behavior?
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The Story of a Marriage: Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation’
“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.” From Jenny Offill’s wonderful 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation — the story of a married couple in Brooklyn, told through snippets of wisdom, anger, love, and bedbugs. In […]