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East River Ferry, August 26
WE RETURN HOME as sailors might, watching the approach of our homeland: a pair of water towers; the red brick spire of the Catholic church at the corner of Milton and Manhattan; the old factory on which someone has spray-painted only the word smells.
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Nice Monsters
I WONDER IF you’ve been called nice before, that placeholder of a word. “She’s nice”: a whitewash with a certain generic sheen, coats of primer applied a few too many times, announcing its intention to ward off attention or suspicion. Nice people or
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The Other Bibles
1. ONE OF THE MOST astounding Bibles I know lives only two hours up the road from me in Collegeville, Minnesota, at St. John’s University. The Saint John’s Bible, one of the first Bibles to be written and illuminated by hand since Gutenberg’s inventi

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