Clothes really do make the man
The week before last I was in Manhattan and emerged alone on a Friday night from the subway station in Union Square. It...
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31 May
General
Tag Archives: Bohjalian
22 May
The Writing Process
Conceiving the narrator of “Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands”
Some years ago – back in the Mesozoic era, if I’m not going to be coy—a review of my novel Midwives ended with...
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20 May
Vermont
A vegetable garden? Food for the soul.
Why garden? Note the verb. In your mind’s eye, conjure a backyard vegetable plot. Imagine activity and effort. Visualize stooping. Lifting. Tilling. Seeding....
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17 May
The Writing Process
“Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands:” The inspiration behind the novel.
It’s one of those classic, absolutely reasonable questions—that is, alas, as impossible to answer briefly as the meaning of life. But I am...
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10 May
General, Untold Stories, Vermont
The great moms endure Barney and “Gettysburg”
In November 1993, not quite a week before my wife’s and my daughter was born, my wife made a sacrifice of epic proportions:...
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03 May
Untold Stories, Vermont
Let’s learn from these bike tragedies
My wife confessed something to me this week: whenever I leave on a bike ride, whether it’s a brief 15-mile jaunt or a...
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26 Apr
Armenia
Why I will not forget the dead
Today I am in Manhattan. This morning I am at St. Vartan, the magnificent Armenian Cathedral on Second Avenue, for the Divine Liturgy....
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22 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
The Souls and Stories That Vanished in the Armenian Genocide of 1915
The photo can only be called exotic. It was taken at the end of the 19th century in an Ottoman city southeast of...
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19 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
The Norwegian who helped the Armenians come to America
Earlier this year, I journeyed from Vermont to Oslo to introduce myself to Marit Greve, an 86-year-old Norwegian who still swims in the...
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05 Apr
Untold Stories
The ties that bind? A baseball’s cross-stitching.
On Monday afternoon, my beloved New York Mets resume their annual quest to reach mediocrity. Once again they will try to win a...
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