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but let's just chalk it up to this song:

Ed Harcourt - Apple of My Eye

If you need me, I'll be dancing in my bedroom.

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Scotland so far.

The University of Edinburgh lost my application for this fall, and US Airways can't find my reservation to fly home at the end of this month. Everything apparently wants me to stay in Carolina, though I can't say I'd mind. I taught Stephen Dunn's "Loves" tonight and talked with the kids about juggling autobiography and truth, how they're not ( Read more... )

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May 18: Vermont to Chicago
May 25: Chicago to New York City
May 30: New York City to Chicago
June 5: Chicago to Charlotte
July 30: Charlotte to New York City
August 15: New York City to Chicago
August 28: Chicago to Paris
September 5: Paris to Edinburgh

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Driving out of town, I see him crossing ( Read more... )

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I’m saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don’t want it. I want it. I don’t want it.

Marie Howe

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