“the fact that I like doing latticed pies but I almost always louse up the latticing, when I’m weaving it in and out,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #11, pp. 351-420)
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“the fact that I just realized that with this worry-doll industry, Guatemala’s indirectly benefiting from stress levels all over the world,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #10, pp. 281-350)
“…roosters can be mean…I couldn’t resist keeping him because he was so good-looking, but then he started attacking the chickens, the cats, and me,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #9, pp. 281-350)
“the fact that they were real in a way I’ll probably never be, nor my kids, or anything,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #8, pp. 211-280)
“the fact that I don’t know how animals think but I think in spirals, dizzying spirals,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #7, pp. 211-280)
"Mann's Doctor Faustus as Artistic Inspiration"
Diane Levesque has created an amazing painting
“the fact that when I deliver my pies and rolls we all act so happy, well, pie is a happy thing, or should be...."
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #6, pp. 141-210)
“the fact that three-tiered wedding cakes involve engineering skills I just don’t have, the fact that it’s really Leo who should be making them, wedding cake collapse,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #5, pp. 141-210)
Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools and Between Dog and Wolf, with Jose Vergara
Lori is joined by Jose Vergara, Associate Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College, for a deep dive on Sasha Sokolov, the great destabilizing stylist of Soviet literature and a true writer’s writer.
“the fact that what is with this constant monologue in my head, that fact that why am I telling myself all of this stuff, since I know it already,…because I’M ME,”
(Ducks, Newburyport, Post #4, pp. 71-140)