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Previously in this series: Just Another Minute, Please, Miss — Hoping That My Suit Might Not Prove Entirely Distasteful To Ye — I make Ninepence A Shil…
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I’m sure he’s not the first to do it, but Isaac Fellman  recently remarked upon the fact that Billy Joel’s “Only The Good Die Young” and Andrew Marvell…
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Dominic Toretto: Your mistake was thinking yourself still in America. You are, in fact, quite a long way from home. This is Brazil. This isn’t an assig…
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either a potion or a wizard's spell
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This evaporated ferrygoer’s sure to set the fathers of this townInto twenty different frenzies swearing no one here could drown,That the water’s never …
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My newest short story, “How, After Long Fighting, Galehaut Was Overcome By Lancelot Yet Was Not Slain And Made Great Speed To Yield To Friendship; Or, …
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Previously: A chat with Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child, about “microdosing” and HRT. Lola Pellegrino is a nurse prac…
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There are few fantasies I like better than the fantasy that I am always being underestimated. Watch out, world!! You’re about to find out just how secr…
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I won’t put this exactly right, but as far as I can remember Grace put it something like this: British spy stories, from Le Carré to Another Country to…
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I cannot count our first meal together from that snatched half-hour between Maxim and Mrs. Van Hopper. 
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"Don't let 'man' stand in for what 'whiteness' is doing." 
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Not at the Scholastic Book Fair, that feeding-trough for babies and amateurs. Oh, teacher, teacher, may I? Let those who jealously husband their gel pe…
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