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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
R.I.P. Tatiana
This is the stuff that Joyce Carol Oates’ stories are made on: your son visits the zoo and a tiger rips his throat out. In case you somehow missed the media frenzy, this past Christmas day a 250-pound Siberian tiger (regally named “Tatiana”) leaped the 12-foot wall of her enclosure at the San Francisco […]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Disposable Pocket
In a forum like this, there’s a certain pressure to be current. I should be obsessively analyzing the latest round of primaries, or yucking it up over Super Bowl ads. But I just don’t think it’s fair that the accident of my birth should prevent me from responding to something that has deeply irritated […]