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Love on Concrete Island
Here is a tale of the only time I've ever been to a strip club. It's set in Houston. In his short story Mexico, Rick Bass writes that people don't fall…
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Unknown Scents
I notice that people don't add descriptors of smell when you ask them how their day was. Not unless there was a sewage-related accident or they went on…
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Minority Report
I should have been a US citizen by now. A year ago, I blocked out a weekend to work on my application for naturalization. It took me three uninterrupted…
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This Airbnb Does Not Avert its Eyes
Dear L&L, I'm up at 6 a.m. writing this review. I was awoken by the sound of an axe being dragged slowly and deliberately across the hardwood floor…
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Nolan's Reality
The first act of Christopher Nolan's new movie shows Robert Oppenheimer's doctorate years in Germany. This act comprises impressionistic visuals of…
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Galvanized Suitcase
Suitcases are very important in my family. For as long as I can remember there were two steel trunks, each about a meter wide and half a meter deep…
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How Much a Bagel Cost
It's the second week of August. Nothing good happens in the second week of August. No matter who you are - rich or poor, smart or hot, happy as a clam…
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