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“Everywhere an Oink Oink” by David Mamet
Someone once said that an experience we take from watching a stage play is always more profound than watching a movie. Many years ago, I watched a performance of David Mamet’s play “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which made an impression more potent than any of David Mamet’s movies. To this day, I consider his command of
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“Baumgartner” by Paul Auster
Saying that Sy Baumgartner, an about-to-retire Princeton professor, doesn’t have a good day is an understatement: first, he burns his hand leaving a pot on the stove, then falls down the stairs showing, completely unnecessary, the way to a meter reading technician. I expected that things would get worse, but no, there were no broken
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“The Premonition” by Banana Yoshimoto
“The Premonition” by Banana Yoshimoto was written in 1988 but has only been translated into English by Asa Yoneda. It’s a short novel, a coming-of-age story of nineteen-year-old Yayoi, who has a premonition that something significant happened in her childhood. She feels her loving parents may not be her biological parents and is strangely drawn