Wonderful summing-up final paragraph from Stefany Anne Golberg’s essay on The Long Lost Friend: There’s a mood of disorientation and longing in The Long Lost Friend‘s title that strikes a different note than the confident claims to be found inside. Maybe this is the book’s “Long-Hidden” message, its essence, and the essence of all the …
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From ProPublica: the number of IRS audits of a poor county in Mississippi makes it the most heavily audited county in America. In a baffling twist of logic, the intense IRS focus on Humphreys County [in Mississippi] is actually because so many of its taxpayers are poor. More than half of the county’s taxpayers claim …
The passing of Bob Einstein also brought the passing of his alter-ego, the heroically ill-fated daredevil stuntman Super Dave Osborn.
The first of many processes
[At the library, after pointing out a shelf of books labeled “Amish Fiction.”] “Where’s the Mennonite fiction?” [In Passing posts are inspired by Orange Crate Art’s domestic comedy posts. I steal all my best ideas from Orange Crate Art.]
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