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Bureaucracy: When Nobody Is in Charge (opens the original)
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Stephen King has never frightened me quite as efficiently as an official envelope.King, at least, has the decency to give the horror a shape. There is usually a hotel, a clown, a car, a dog, a thing in the woods. Something has gone wrong, and eventually you discover what it is. Even when the monster is supernatural, the rules of the nightmare become visible. You may not be able to defeat it, but at least you know what has entered the room.Government correspondence offers no such courtesy.It arri
My Husband Went to Berlin. Eli Came Over. (opens the original)
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IMy husband went to Berlin this week, so naturally another man moved into my apartment.I realize there are people for whom that sentence requires immediate elaboration. A footnote. Possibly a lawyer. Fortunately, I have a law degree and neighbors.New York at the end of September does something to people. The light goes low and gold around five o’clock and hits the brownstones at an angle that makes even the scaffolding look intentional. Steam comes up out of the grates like the city is confessin
The Men Are Running to Berlin. I’m Staying Home. (opens the original)
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INext weekend my husband will fly to Berlin to run twenty-six point two miles as fast as his body will allow, which is one of those sentences that becomes perfectly ordinary once you have been married to a runner long enough. Somewhere along the way I stopped asking why a person would spend months preparing to suffer for a few hours on a Sunday morning. I have accepted runners the way people who live by the sea accept the tides. They go out. They come back. They own strange shoes, and they speak
What About Bob? (opens the original)
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I. The French Ruined EverythingMany years ago, when Matt and I lived in France, the French ruined fashion for me.I don’t mean this maliciously. Quite the opposite. I was impressed in that vaguely irritating way you become impressed by people who appear to know something you do not. Of all the places I’ve lived in or traveled through, I still think the French and Italians dress better than almost everybody else, although they approach the matter from entirely different directions.Italians tend to
My Husband Runs Marathons. I Travel With a Cat. (opens the original)
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I. Run, Forrest, RunMy husband is a runner.I should probably clarify what that means, because there is “I go jogging three times a week” running, and then there is Matt. Matt has been running since high school. He trains year-round. He qualifies for major marathons. Boston and Chicago are not mythical events populated by people with frightening calves and unusually disciplined digestive systems. They are actual places he goes.Naturally, I call him Marathon Matt.When I want to annoy him, I call h
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