Coming Back from the Dead
Chris Rose tells us what is it like driving by the “haunting messages and mystical artifacts [that] adorn the homes of neighborhoods struggling to come back from the dead. Via Ernie the Attorney I...
View ArticleTapping the Admiral
Some years ago, the father of a friend of mine brought a fairly enormous house in the middle of Bodmin Moor, a sort of Georgian/Regency house built on the site of an older farmhouse. In the capacious...
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
David Dornstein, while at Brown, had an idea for a fictional autobiography. ”The idea?” his brother would write later. ”An unknown young writer dies in a plane crash leaving behind lots of notebooks...
View ArticleLeaving a blood trail for police
Some people leave fingerprints, Adam Warner left his finger. Over Memorial Day, Warner had himself a good time toppling some 53 headstones in an upstate N.Yl. cemetery until one fell on him severing...
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Memory Holes
From a New York Times book review by Russell Shorto of “Mayflower : A Story of Courage, Community, and War” (Nathaniel Philbrick) Not long after the Pilgrims set anchor in the harbor they called...
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Mr Noodle
The ramen noodle, a dish of “effortless purity” that attains a “state of grace through a marriage with nothing but hot water” and satisfies more than 100 million people every day was invented by a...
View ArticleFraud Exposed by ITunes, Widower Confesses
Joyce Hatto was a little known pianist in London when she fell ill and moved to New Zealand. Her recordings, CDs made when she was in her late 60s and 70s, are staggering, showing a masterful...
View ArticleMark Twain’s obsession with death
David Kipen explores Mark Twain’s lifelong preoccupation with death in Twain’s most chilling time was a fall in San Francisco A cheerful approach it isn’t, but a careful scrutiny of Twain’s life and...
View ArticleBeing dead on and off has made her life a hassle
The problems starts when someone in Florida died and Laura Todd’s social security number was accidently typed in. Woman Says Being Dead Ruins Her Life The IRS says I’m dead. Everybody says I’m dead,”...
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Caught and saved
My man of the week, Construction worker Jason Oglesbee dangles from a crane as he stretches his hand to a drowning woman caught in a swirl of water at the base of a dam. Her boat overturned and her...
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