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I don’t have that many personal connections to Evanston, Illinois. My friend, Bill, works at Northwestern University and my old friend, Tom, lived and died there, as did my friend, Tony, more recently. It’s a suburb connected to the city by public transportation which links it in my mind with Brookline, Massachusetts, where my parentsContinue reading “Northwestern”

I pulled an old paperback of William Gass’s first novel, Omensetter’s Luck, off the shelf at the bookstore one afternoon when I was done shelving and needed a break. It starts with an estate sale and an old man hanging around, talking at whoever will listen. I took the book home. I’ve been avoiding GassContinue reading “Omen Setter”

I wake up at 2am from a dream in which K is talking at me through a Coke can like a walkie-talkie. I lie there trying to go back to sleep to know avail. She wakes up a little later because I’m no longer snoring so it’s too quiet. Both our alarms are set forContinue reading “Smart&Final—extra!”