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Like other cities with attrition problems, Baltimore held tight to its unique and specific claims to fame: Edgar Allan Poe and Mr. Trash Wheel, Frederick Douglass and Utz potato chips, the Baltimore Orioles and Natty Boh, the champion of cheap beer in Baltimore with an iconic one-eyed mascot. King of camp John Waters was a regular at local haunts. A plaque in a 7-Eleven on Charles Street claimed the Oujia board had
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now that he was fifty and they were still eighteen, his overinvestment took on the tone of desperation, like a decrepit hand reaching toward the elixir of youth. He meddled in their affairs, half pretending he was one of them, but he always had, at the ready, the upper hand of extensive past experience.
Tom had deluded himself into thinking that the students’ energy would rub off on him. It wasn’t contagious,
— Jul 31, 2026 06:12PM
Tom had deluded himself into thinking that the students’ energy would rub off on him. It wasn’t contagious,
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I felt nostalgia for the quaint and personal era of the phone tree, parents calling parents calling parents to let them know about a two-hour delay, or else we’d all just tune into the radio with a hope and a prayer. I also felt nostalgia for those innocent pre-Columbine years. Once a month, we lined up for fire drills and marched outside, high on the fresh air, the timed multiplication-table tests abandoned
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You should write a campus novel,” said Sophie. “Except instead of it being about professors with status anxiety living coddled existences in old Victorian houses, it’s about adjuncts with survival anxiety stealing bagels from department meetings and buying office supplies in the toy section of CVS.”
“The problem is it’ll sound like satire,” I said.
“That’s exactly the point. We’re living the genre
— Jul 28, 2026 07:26PM
“The problem is it’ll sound like satire,” I said.
“That’s exactly the point. We’re living the genre