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Debate Table
On Being Ordinary
I want to make a case for ordinariness, by which I mean the kind of life that does not leave a large historical footprint, that is not disti...
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The Language She Spoke
My grandmother spoke a language I never learned. This was, for many years, a fact I noted without particularly examining — one of those biog...
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Quiet Table
The Longest Summer
The summer I was twenty-two I worked in a warehouse on the edge of a city I had not chosen, sorting returned goods for eight hours a day. Th...
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Midnight Table
Night Swimming
We decided to swim at midnight, which was either a terrible idea or the best one we'd had in years. The lake was forty minutes outside the c...
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Fiction Booth
The Widow's Clock
The clock on her mantelpiece had been stopped at twenty to four since the night of Gerald's stroke. She hadn't stopped it deliberately — it...
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Quiet Table
The Cartographer's Daughter
My father mapped places he had never been. This was his work — not exploration, but reconstruction. He sat at his long drafting table in th...