1 A naïf in Vermont
He seemed like a nice enough guy, but so did Ted Bundy from all accounts. And it wasn’t like Bread Loaf was short on desperadoes. It was a writers’ conference, after all. Charlie Manson could have hidden in plain sight. Still, here I was, following this guy across campus in the middle [...]
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Genrealities: Five Honest-to-Goodness True Stories of Everyday Humiliations
Michael LiblingThe Trials Of Norman Elder
Ian Young“It’s surprising what a friendly place it is – the whole world!”
—Norman Elder
One of the first things a visitor tended to notice on entering the massive, three-storey brick house on Bedford Road was the stuffed emu hanging upside down over the main staircase. After the bright sunlight outside, the sudden gloom might well have obscured [...]
Auctions
David MasonMany people think that an auction, being conducted in public, is wholly transparent and that each lot will reach its appropriate price. I shall show you here how foolish such a view is. Auctions are the most exciting way of buying books and usually the most expensive. They are volatile and unpredictable, and they can [...]
Mine Clearance for Dummies. Or, What Kind of Idiot Writes About Porn?
AJ SomersetLindsay is a 22-year-old receptionist with short, dark hair and an ingenuous face, freckled, smiling. She looks as if she doesn’t get a lot of sun. Today is not an ordinary day for her: Lindsay is about to be filmed watching porn, by photojournalist Robbie Cooper, as part of his “Immersion” project for Wallpaper magazine. [...]
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