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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/contrapposto-a-novel-dave-eggers/855fec22a73d7bf5?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&amp;utm_content={adgroupname}&amp;utm_term=aud-1885352274224:dsa-19959388920&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=12440232635&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACfld43lEM53DU8V_hrsN_mXwzyjc&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwoMXQBhDcARIsAH-eEtulY-qqSDh1K_Z34cLcu7sbzD1HMta9nSJZbU6x0ohVjPCmmSg0dooaAvCUEALw_wcB"><img src="https://tendency-prod.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2wsacwubj8sogjhdtv1ee08h0dwr" alt="" /></a></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p>Q: This is a very funny, very moving book about the deepest kind of friendship. It unfolds over many decades, and the novel took shape over decades for you, too. When did you begin thinking about these characters?</p> <p><span class="caps">DAVE</span> <span…

<p>I wake before dawn to coordinate with my vast network of parental co-conspirators. Our agenda this morning is straight fire, as the youth would say, beginning with a vigorous debate about scheduling sunrise for maximum cruelty. We ultimately settle on triggering dawn just a liiiiiitle bit earlier than it was…

<p>So you spent the last two hours fighting for your life trying to merge into aggressive traffic, avoid potholes, find the one open space in the parking garage near the T stop, and stay on your feet in a crammed Green Line train with no handholds, and now you&#8217;re going…

<p>Oh, hello&#8212;sorry, almost didn’t see you here at the end of the aisle with your hairnet and your alluring toaster oven full of mysterious, cost-free delicacies. I was just passing by, shopping for things that cost money. That’s what I do when I come here. I participate in the bulk-purchase…

<p style="text-align:center;"><i><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird">With apologies to Wallace Stevens.</a></i></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p><strong>I</strong><br /> Meeting with the academic dean<br /> I asked him to share with faculty<br /> How admin are using AI.</p> <p><strong>II</strong><br /> A colleague shares a short story:<br /> Kafka sitting in a sales meeting<br /> For AI.</p> <p><strong><span…

<p><em><a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/underground-artists"><strong>Underground Artists</strong></a> is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (<a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/hungover-bear-and-friends"><strong>Hungover Bear &amp; Friends</strong></a>) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.</em></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://tendency-prod.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/ya4m85qom5i1rcdoy9lkd4xozl77" alt="" /></p>

<p>You&#8217;ve had a long, hard nine months. Your wife&#8217;s been pregnant, and in month nine, she was so uncomfortable in bed that she made you sleep on the futon. Twice.</p> <p>And yet, you survived. At long last, the big day is upon you. A baby&#8217;s birth is a significant medical…

<p><i>&#8220;In the end, only one will remain and will leave the island with one million dollars in cash as their reward.&#8221; &#8212; Jeff Probst, host of</i> Survivor</p> <p><i>&#8220;For the moment, the fund has been capped at the patriotically symbolic sum of $1.776 billion, and many Jan. 6ers have already done…

<p><i>&#8220;President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay claims made by his friends for purported unfair prosecution.&#8221; &#8212;</i> <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trump-irs-settlement-slush-fund-doj/">Mother Jones</a></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p>This used to be a…

<p><strong><span class="caps">SCENE</span> 1.<br /> <span class="caps">EXT</span>. A <span class="caps">BOULEVARD</span>. <span class="caps">MIDNIGHT</span>.</strong></p> <p><span class="caps">POE</span> drops his frock coat, loosens his cravat, and tears open his shirt, buttons flying, to reveal his body, which is totally jacked. His nipples glisten in the moonlight.</p> <p>A <span class="caps">BLACK</span> <span class="caps">CAT</span>, in the process of…