John
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Yesterday I bought some real estate. Not much, really: probably about a square foot, maybe two. By the square footage it was pretty pricey – $750. But we have to remember that the construction we will put on it is longlasting; as the gravedigger in Hamlet puts it,
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[What follows is an excerpt from EDUCATING LONGFELLOW, my new novel. It’s set at Adams Academy, a fictional New England boarding school. The important players are Marshall Troublefield, 30, a Desert Storm vet, a newly minted M.A. in English, and a brand-new teacher at the school; Natty Sewall, a new ninth-grader from Wiscasset,
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I’m posting a story for Easter. It’s about a kind of rebirth. The heroine, Miss Agnes, is old but tough. Oh, and Latin students will recognize her name. I really like Miss Agnes.
TEETH
“Ain’t that something,” mutters Miss Agnes Day insincerely, her words as ever puncutuated by the clicks of her dentures slipping and sliding over the banana skins of her gums.
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The other day Jane and I saw SELMA. We were both extremely moved, and I was brought back to those difficult days of apartheid in the South. Growing up in Maine, going to college in western Massachusetts, I was very far away from the South and all the madness, but later,
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