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1. The Tabby Our tabby cat, Malachi, was euthanized this past Friday. A cold, sunny January day. He was somewhere around nineteen years old; his kidneys were shot; he’d deteriorated slowly ov…| The Ambiguities
1. The Tabby Our tabby cat, Malachi, was euthanized this past Friday. A cold, sunny January day. He was somewhere around nineteen years old; his kidneys were shot; he’d deteriorated slowly ov…| The Ambiguities
25. “Insider” (with Stevie Nicks) The perfection of the drums leading their harmony into the chorus. 24. “Ways to Be Wicked” The perfection of the title. (Also made into a p…| The Ambiguities
Just finished: Citizen, by Claudia Rankine. Reading next: Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, by Charles Brockden Brown. Citizen seems a more or less unclassifiable piece of literature, as…| The Ambiguities
Just finished: The Stammering Century, by Gilbert Seldes. Reading now: Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler. I still can’t believe it, honestly: that we went all the way down the rabbit…| The Ambiguities
Now reading: Cries for Help, Various by Padgett Powell. Padgett Powell writes unclassifiable things that mostly get classified as “short stories” or “novels.” His newest boo…| The Ambiguities
Now reading: Great Expectations. There’s a theme throughout the second book of GE that feels uncomfortably familiar. It also feels very American, and very modern. I’m not sure I’v…| The Ambiguities
Now reading: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. I recently finished Stuart Dybek’s wonderful book of short stories, The Coast of Chicago. It has an epigraph that sticks with me, by the S…| The Ambiguities
It’s been over three years since I wrote anything here. There are a number of reasons for that: laziness, first and foremost, but also a busy and at times exhausting work life, and a feeling …| The Ambiguities
Just finished: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, by Karen Russell. Reading next: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline. Right near the beginning of the first story in Karen Russell̵…| The Ambiguities
See also all five preceding posts in this series on the five female-protagonist episodes of The Twilight Zone, season one. I’ve mentioned before that Serling had two daughters who were growin…| The Ambiguities
