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Live Essays An Experiment of Up-to-the-Minute Nonfiction

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Live Essays · 1Y ago

The Good Men Project

Dear readers,Are you there? The blog is now a column over at The Good Men Project and will appear there in the future, every two weeks.Column 1: http://goodmenproject.com/2010/06/08/bobbing-for-kimchi/Feature: http://goodmenproject.com/2010/05/31/ouch/Love,Matt
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

And after the Intermission IV

Then it is the day before she returns. I haven't written much here, I realize. I thought I would, but maybe I am not so interesting on my own. I look over the words I managed. Short sentences. Empty sentences. When I talk with her the night before her flight, she says, "Will you be sad if I don't co
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

And after the Intermission III

As I'm keeping myself busy I start to feel okay, then less okay, then circular. After a weekend of this circle she calls with the news in Boston. The water is undrinkable, she says. I already know this: the "cuff link" on the pipe has broken and the clean water has spilled into the unswimmable Charl
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

And after the Intermission II

Two weeks pass at a fast slow clip. I have a friend come into town. I work. I drink more than I have in a long time. I buy cat food twice. Boise is eating in sorrow. The first couple nights he waited in the living room. Now he’s happiest when we’re both asleep. He is always hungry. He is always me
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

The Island of Epidemics and Me

While Cathreen is away in Korea, I am working on getting published a series of tiny stories about an island of epidemics. The epidemics are: memory loss, hunger, expanding hearts, unrequited love, obsession, magic, charisma . . .Boise claws my hands when I try to clip his nails and I think about wha
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

And after the Intermission

Cathreen is gone to Korea. My, this house is big. I want to write more but it's also a little scary. How to care for the cat?The Paris Review Interviews essays will have to wait. I have emotions on my mind. The cat sits by the door, in a suitcase. "Boy," I call him. Still, I'm the one who named him.
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

The Paris Review Interviews 6

James M. CainI had to skip some of this interview. Hollywood and writing tricks. "The old switcheroo."Cathreen's mom is home from the hospital. In her whole-leg cast. The two babies have become attention-starved. Cathreen's grandmother is angry with her dead husband. How could he not watch out for h
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Live Essays · 2Y ago

The Paris Review Interviews 5

Borges says Americans have to save the English language.Kurt VonnegutCathreen lies in bed looking at online shopping sites. I try to watch tv, though there's nothing good. From time to time, she calls me in to look at something. Once, she calls me on the phone.Vonnegut is not taking his interview se
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The Paris Review Interviews 4

Now we are about to eat dinner with friends.Borges was having a conversation. Borges might never have tried fiction, he says, if he hadn't almost died.The smell coming out of the kitchen--I am in awe of my wife. I can feel her in my insides, wanting to be reconciled to hunger.
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The Paris Review Interviews 3

Saul BellowSaul Bellow took 5 weeks to complete his interview. Dedication to truth.Boise rolls on the floor over and over. Drugged up on Japanese catnip again. He plays with a laser but can't concentrate. Cathreen talks about hairballs.She's sore from moving all weekend. Basketball, apartment moving
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