how to win the lottery s19e04 – american boy by larry watson
won’t do what a man wants/likes— this is how i steal him away!
won’t do what a man wants/likes— this is how i steal him away!
we talk to john reimringer, author of vestments, about catholicism, the o’connor system, and the juicy lucy burger.
glory be to you, dancers; to hawks for their many names; to baseballs for falling into green outfields and waiting mitts; to white nights, the slice of skates, the evening light on the mississippi. glory be to the great city at its head, to saint paul and the working men who built its churches and taverns, unloaded its steamboats, and laid down its trolley lines and its railroad to the northwest. praise be to my father, bent to some task of joinery in an old house; and to betty’s son, i want to teach him to swim and water-ski, to skip happily over the deep green waters of forest lake.
a woman who smoked in public was considered “loose,” but i saw no harm in smoking if it was in private. and in any case, why was it immoral only for a woman and not a man?
we talk to sara levine, author of treasure island!!! and the hitch, about pets, siblings, and her favorite notebooks.