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Humor, mostly
By Richard Goodman · Launched a year ago
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All the world's a stage
I was teaching a writing course in a town in mid-coast Maine. The school where I teach put me up in this house as part of the deal. It’s a wonderful house, with a forever-sloping lawn that ends at woods that have tall birch trees whose leaves flutter in the wind and stir the…
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Entering a new country
I look in the mirror, and I’m startled. My body is gaunt. I’m developing one of those old-man bodies you see on the beach. Bones everywhere. You could…
Richard Goodman
Aug 6
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My own private Gutenberg
In 1957, my Uncle Bob gave me a Smith Corona Galaxie II Manual Typewriter for my twelfth birthday. It was one of the best gifts I've ever received. It…
Richard Goodman
Jul 31
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Pickleball
I joined a group of pickleball players yesterday. They’re called “The Agin’ Cajuns.” (I live near Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country…
Richard Goodman
Jul 26
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The terrible infant
It's surprising to find yourself, or something you've written, as a source for part of a famous dead poet’s biography. Especially a famous dead poet…
Richard Goodman
Jul 21
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The shoe store
I was looking for a pair of shoes. Very specific. I’d bought them ten years earlier in the same store on West 72nd Street in New York City. They didn’t…
Richard Goodman
Jul 14
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The courageous Jean Rhys
People are writing about her, at last.
Richard Goodman
Jul 9
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Living in Winesburg
Garrison Keillor does not like Sherwood Anderson. Or, rather, he doesn’t like Winesburg, Ohio, which was written by Anderson. He once said the book “is…
Richard Goodman
Jul 1
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