Readings Archives

From a list of phrases describing weakness in women tennis players, used by television sportscasters covering mixed doubles matches at the U. S. Open in September 1989. The list is…

Husbands

by Andre Dubus,

Learning to Embrace Mosquito

by Harper’s Staff,

From the course listing for “Song of the Mosquito,” in the January 1991 newsletter of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. The course, taught by an instructor named…

Lutte contre les moustiques (The battle against the mosquitoes)

Art by Chéri Samba,

Forbidden neon

by Joe Augusta,

Teach by the values you preach

by Jane P. Tompkins,

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Consider the crank

Growing up

Is that everyone?

Bidding for Yoko

Readings

America’s loneliest home videos

Hamlet, prince of co-dependency

Saying no

Fish tank sonata

A Byelorussian go-getter

The bard of baseball

Berlin

Trimming the story

Men’s group visionary, 1953

Gregory, the Urban Scarecrow

The New Politics of Health Care

Kafka gets the munchies

Auto aerobics

Man traveling northwest at 60 mph on Highway 101 in the vicinity of Hollywood, California, on a late Sunday afternoon in March 1991

Toward a more P.C. Halloween

Trading blows

Of a conservative (created) caste

Readings

A change of life

Advantage, Men

Husbands

Learning to Embrace Mosquito

Lutte contre les moustiques (The battle against the mosquitoes)

Forbidden neon

Teach by the values you preach

November 1991

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