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Late night at the bar
Note: this piece was recently published in the North American Review. If you've read it, please ignore. I'm publishing it on Substack for those who may…
Richard Goodman
Jun 25
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The girl in the blue dress
On a trip to Vienna as a young man. I walked into its huge art museum, the Kunsthistorisches, not having a clue. I knew next to nothing about art. When…
Richard Goodman
Jun 21
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The longevity of shame
More bad news? We don’t need it, do we? Abuse, though. That always needs to see the cleansing light of day. I wrote an essay about a football coach at…
Richard Goodman
Jun 10
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I watched a movie
The other day I watched an old film, The Train. It was released in 1964, shot in black and white, and stars Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield. The film…
Richard Goodman
Jun 5
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Cataracts!
I’m going to have a cataract operation today. I’ve been having problems with driving at night. And seeing distances. So, a month or so ago, I went and…
Richard Goodman
May 31
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Veselka
The Ukrainian Coffee Shop
Richard Goodman
May 28
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Confronting the repo man
Debit and credit. I want them balanced, or as nearly as I can make them. As I get older, though, the debit column gets more substantial. At 76, I begin…
Richard Goodman
May 20
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Formula
The current alarming shortage of baby formula has put me in a time machine. It’s caused me think about my daughter when she was a baby many years ago…
Richard Goodman
May 14
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Wish you were here
"Mothers are all slightly insane," Holden Caulfield says at one point in The Catcher in the Rye. I always knew what he meant. It was never a quote that…
Richard Goodman
May 8
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A day in the life of Marie-Claire Blais
Sometime in the mid-1970s, I read Edmund Wilson’s O Canada, An American’s Notes on Canadian Culture. As far as I know, it’s one of the few—if not…
Richard Goodman
May 7
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The man in the mirror
One day, things begin to change. You don’t remember exactly when, but they do. You start getting out of bed a little slower, a little more reluctantly…
Richard Goodman
Apr 30
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Paris in bad weather
The last time I was in Paris, it rained. When it didn’t rain, it threatened to. This was in October, so leaves were starting to fall from trees, and…
Richard Goodman
Apr 30
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