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Carlton Sortwell
Beginning in June of 2012 I began writing a serial novel on this blog. It was called CARLTON SORTWELL and explored among other things Little League baseball. I finished in March of 2013. Like all of my other novels, it has strong ties to Maine,
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John
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Luke Henesy is standing in front of 24 Revere High School sophomores and juniors, and three seniors, wading through a lesson on graphing systems of linear inequalities. This is an Advanced Algebra class, the Green section, and no one is texting, though a couple of times he has asked for the removal of headphones.
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In a couple weeks I’m going to England for an Anthony Powell conference. Powell wrote a vast novel – 12 volumes long – called Dance to the Music of Time. I have taught the series several times, even published a book of student essays on it, Dance Class. I’m reading a third of a paper at the conference.
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John
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I’ve just undergone a sobering experience. In 1975 I completed a novel, The Greenleaf Fires, which was eventually, in 1977, published by Scribner’s. Over the last three weeks – 37 years later – I have retyped the whole damned thing.
When this winter I finally decided to join the 21st century,
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I’m living right next door to an angel,
And I’m gonna make that angel mine
Neil Sedaka is singing. It’s 1994, spring in Los Angeles, the waxed and buffed droptops spinning down La Cienega and along Wilshire,
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