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One Way Out
By Jonathan WilsonThe truest American and the biggest Allman Brothers fan I know is Phil C., who was the mailman on my street for twenty-five years.
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Why Poetry
By Craig Morgan TeicherAs if in answer to a primordial urge, / I longed for something / to which to / apprentice myself. / I could not learn / to becomemy mother for obvious / reasons that were not obvious
From the Archive, Issue 206
Poetry
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By Dan PiepenbringIn today’s arts and culture news: the Museum of Failure; communist banquets gone awry; Bulgakov’s eternal toiling; and more.
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Liliana
By Maile MeloyOn a hazy summer afternoon in Los Angeles, while my wife was at work and our children were napping, I answered the ringing doorbell to find my grandmother, two months dead, standing on the stoop. She gave me a happy smile and then turned and waved to a black car with dark windows that purred at the curb. The car pulled away.
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Fiction
The Throwback Special
By Chris BachelderNovember 18, 1985—Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, thirty-six, suffers a career-ending compound fracture of the right leg on a sack by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor during a telecast of ABC’s Monday Night Football.
From the Archive, Issue 213
Fiction
Emission
By Joshua CohenAbout two years after being graduated from college with a degree in unemployment—my thesis was on Metaphor—I’d moved from New York to Berlin to work as a writer, though perhaps that’s not right because nobody in Berlin works.
