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The Last Year of My Father's Life
The year my father was dying we watched a great deal of television together. This is not what I expected to remember most, and for a long ti...
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On Reading Slowly
I read a poem today that I have read many times before. I read it slowly, which is the only way to read a poem, and even so I moved through...
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Midnight Table
The House at the End of Summer
The house had been in the family for three generations, which meant it had accumulated the kind of history that resists summarising. This wa...
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Quiet Table
What I Learned from Staying
I am, by nature and by history, a person who leaves. I left the town I grew up in at eighteen with two bags and no particular plan, and I ha...
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Debate Table
Against Productivity
I want to make a case, deliberate and serious, against the current religion of productivity. I want to make it carefully because the counter...
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Everything I Know About Leaving
I have left many places. I have left them well and poorly and in a hurry and with great deliberation, and I have been studying the practice...