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Fatherhood to the Max

10/30/2017

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A WRITER'S WIT
The secret of power is not that it corrupts; that is well known. What is never said is that power reveals.
Robert Caro
Master of the Senate
Born October 30,1935  
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R. Caro

New Yorker Fiction 2017

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​***October 30, 2017, Joseph O’Neill, “The Sinking of the Houston”: A Manhattanite father of three teens sets out to retrieve his mugged son’s phone. ¶ This story which strikes one note at the beginning—FATHERHOOD—quickly veers and intersects a larger history. In his high-tech fashion—monitoring son’s mugger by way of a track-your-child app on his own phone—Dad looks to rectify this wrong. After weeks of surveillance, he sallies forth in what looks like will be a kill and in the elevator encounters an old-man neighbor who soon reveals that when he was a teen he’d survived the sinking of the Houston in his engagement with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in 1962. The reader never learns whether Dad locates the mugger, but this chance meeting with a former teen does seem to change the context of his mission. O’Neill’s collection, Good Trouble, comes out in June 2018.
Photograph by John Clang

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Strangler Bob and Other Freaks

10/23/2017

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A WRITER'S WIT
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. 
​Ned Rorem
Born October 23, 1923

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N. Rorem

New Yorker Fiction 2017

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**October 23, 2017, Denis Johnson, “Strangler Bob”: In 1967, eighteen-year-old Dink lands in jail for car theft along with a cast of characters with names like B.D., Dundun, and Strangler Bob. Johnson’s posthumous collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, comes out in January 2018.

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More Than One Snake

10/16/2017

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A WRITER'S WIT
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. 
​Günter Grass
Born October 16, 1927

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New Yorker​ Fiction 2017

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**October 16, 2017, Tessa Hadley, “Funny Little Snake”: A nine-year-old girl in 1960s London goes to visit her father and young stepmother who at first does not want the child around. Hadley’s latest book is Bad Dreams and Other Stories.

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To Like or Not to Like

10/9/2017

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A WRITER'S WIT
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it—this is a hard lesson. 
​Bruce Catton
Born October 9, 1899
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New Yorker​ Fiction 2017

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**​October 9, 2017, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum , “Likes”: With the 2016 election and a twelve-year-old ballerina’s social media posts as background, a father attempts to cope with his daughter’s puzzling leap into adulthood. One of Bynum’s recent books is Ms. Hempel Chronicles.

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Memorial with a Hole in It

10/2/2017

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A WRITER'S WIT
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
​Graham Greene
Born October 2, 1904

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New Yorker​ Fiction 2017

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**October 2, 2017, Ben Marcus, “Blueprints for St. Louis”: Roy and Ida, architects designing a memorial for victims of a mass bombing, differ on how to achieve their goal—just as they differ on how to live as a married couple. Marcus’s most recent collection is New American Stories. 

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