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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two... →
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be... →
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their... →
Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say... →
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible... →
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people... →
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true... →
My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren:... →
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as... →
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there... →
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it... →
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel... →
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor... →