Thus wrote Crilloffer
Why should they be connected? Why should "a" flow into "b" and into "c" as if the three were bosom [...]
Freeway Flyer
In the fall of 1964 my father taught me how to ride a bicycle in the back alley of our [...]
Friend of the dead
We liked car accidents. The lethal ones were best. They held greater print promise. The higher the death count, the [...]
Italy’s phantom money
Some 20 years ago, a wealthy American ambassador to Italy — he'd made his billions in shopping malls — was [...]
The new milkmen
As a young journalist in the mid-1970s I tried hard to emulate the style of the writers I'd grown to [...]
The raging down below
Hurricanes are the stars of America's mean season, implacably brutal knuckles of howl that turn summer into fall and rearrange [...]
Arguing with testosterone
My testosterone is in a funk. Gnome-like, it trolls through stories of extravagantly untoward male behavior and wants to know [...]
Xanax in love
She said I should forget it. All of it. Everything she'd just said. I didn't know where to start forgetting. [...]
Artificial flavoring
My American bank recently sent me a good-natured message about the many services they offered and the little things they [...]
After the boardwalk
In another era, two boys felt like they owned a Delaware boardwalk, until time saw one of them come undone.