FTC to Crack Down on Hyperbolic “Humorists”
NEEDHAM, Mass. It’s 6 a.m. in this town of 31,000 west of Boston and Jim “Hat Trick” Hamtramick has just turned on his computer to write his daily post for “Crazy Suburban Dad,” the “blog” […]
Category: Fiction
My Bossa Nova Years
It is no coincidence that the bossa nova craze coincided with the years in which I achieved my greatest romantic success–first through sixth grades. No music is better suited to inspire thoughts of love than that associated […]
A Public Option for Cats
We had finished dinner and I was hoping to relax and watch some TV when my wife stopped me on the way to the couch. “We need to talk,” she said in a somber tone–never […]
Two Dead as Joyce Carol Oates Books Topple on Shoppers
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Firemen worked frantically against the clock in a desperate attempt to save the lives of shoppers at the Barnes & Noble bookstore here after a shelf gave way when “Breathe: A Novel,” the […]
English Department, Med School Collaborate on Semi-Colonoscopy
SHREWSBURY, Mass. Pamela Wykoff hates hospitals but that’s okay, because as a professor of English at Colburn College here she doesn’t have to get near one for her job. “I hate how they put you […]
