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Coronavirus Diaries
by | Apr 29, 2020

The viral contagion sweeping over the world has forced many people to work from home for the first time. For me it is natural. I haven’t labored in an office since the magazine I edited folded in 1984. These days…

by | Apr 28, 2020

The hero of The Last One Left is Sam Boylston, a Texas lawyer whose fiercely competitive drive causes a breach with the wife who still loves him and whom he loves: He ain’t real big yet. But he’s moving as…

by | Apr 24, 2020

My roommate is spending quarantine getting yoked. The man has gained nearly 20 pounds of muscle, spending all of his available time either eating or doing chin-ups in our shared bathroom doorway. In addition to this constant pursuit of a…

by | Apr 24, 2020

I looked in the mirror today. I look like the Lion King. I haven’t had this much hair on my head since I was 12. Unable to cut it, I’m beginning to think about directing its growth somewhere, probably towards…

by | Apr 22, 2020

How are we spending our time during the shutdown? We are so grateful that you’ve asked. My wife, Amy, and I are spending more hours together, really together. We read to one another, sing out loud together (mostly 1980s favorites),…

by | Apr 22, 2020

I broke the tap. I’m not playing games with this virus. I was disinfecting it with the hammer and the handle came off. Now I can’t stop the trickle, relentless as a tax collector. I called the plumber. But nothing…

by | Apr 20, 2020

About a month ago, I walked out of the University of Oklahoma College of Law’s Coats Hall for spring break. I had no idea it would be the last time I left Coats Hall as a student. Back then, the…

by | Apr 20, 2020

You know you’re a little tense when you’re able to play a Safri Duo hit simply resting your index finger on the underside of a bucket. Spending so long on lockdown affects the nervous system. Irregular appetite, screaming outbursts, and…

by | Apr 17, 2020

It was around a month ago that the eccentric dictator of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow, ordered his government ministers to fumigate the entire country by burning yuzarlik, a perennial herb also known as harmala or Syrian rue, the better to…

by | Apr 16, 2020

Superman would have weathered mandatory social distancing fine. He had his Fortress of Solitude, after all. Me? I have my comic books, including reprints of the big blue boy scout’s first appearance. In the 1990s, I dove deeply into comic…

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