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TJ Beitelman
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October 01, 1971
in Fairfax, VA, The United States
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1. Charlie Hustle 2.0.
2. Which is to say: Bryce Harper.
3. Which is to say: It’s never too early (or too late) to find your life’s work and pursue it with vocational intensity.
4. Vocational intensity.
5. Which is to say: effort.
6. Also: baseball.
7. My father, who watched a lot of televised baseball games.
8. Clearing the decks.
9. Tools.
10. My tools, effete and writerly though they may be.
11. Which...
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Pilgrims: A Love Story
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2010
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In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
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2012
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| This is a great first book, and that's not damning it with faint praise. Great first books don't have to be perfect. What a great first book has to do is this: it has to announce that this is somebody who's got something very important to say, somebo...more | |
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"Me. Busking poems. In the Magic City. FYI.
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Well. I'm not objective. I believe that John Berger is a sage. His work makes my eyes go like Mowgli in that part of The Jungle Book where that crazy snake makes his eyes go all googly. So. Clearly you can take this review with a grain of salt. And I...more |
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| So I sent somebody, a writer (a better writer than me, in fact), an email not too long ago about how I was loving this book by John Berger called G. And she wrote back and asked me what I loved about it. So I responded, but this same email also inclu...more | |
“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.”
― Michael Ondaatje
― Michael Ondaatje
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