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Let’s see…it first came out in 1983…so Alice would be how old now? Nevermind…she’s still nineteen!

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I am reading Otto Friedrich’s book on Glenn Gould. I am listening to the Goldberg Variations. There are advantages to not being able to fall asleep.

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I met Ron Charles the Washington Post book reviewer at a wonderful Pen/Faulkner event. He introduce the panel (Elinor Lipman, who read a chapter from a work in progress that was stunningly good, Stephen MacCauley whose novel Insignificant Others I am now reading and loving and me who needs to lose 25 pounds). Ron Charles

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Hector the cairn terrier seems to have done an interview for Writers on Writing with Marrie Stone on the Irvine public radio station. You will hear his dulcet tones and profound insights a little after the halfway mark. http://penonfire.blogspot.com/2011/02/susan-maushart-cathleen-schine.html

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I was poking around trying to find places that sell Friulano wine here and somehow ended up on a blog called Students in Rome which had this video that apparently has been the ubiquitous pop song of the summer there: Here’s the original, written to shame post-war poseurs back to their roots: And here is

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-I have not been very attentive, have I? Well, here is what I have been thinking of: Buster Posey. Of the Giants. Not because of what a good player he is, but because I love his name. It’s one of the best baseball names ever. Someone wrote about baseball names. I’m pretty sure it was

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And goodb-bye to the wonderful, and as you can see hoity-toity, Connecticut yacht club where my brother kept the little sail boat he had this summer.

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Here is a bowl of plums from a tree in my son’s backyard in Venice, CA. They no longer exist. They were delicious. And here is a view of Janet’s and my street in Venice, CA.

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