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Pete Coviello
Same Drugs
Close Reading
Pete Coviello
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June 27, 2017
1
Time hovers o’er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the Passages of Joy. June is upon – the long light, the sticky swelter, the...
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Getting Us Through: Thugs Scum Punks Freaks
Getting Us Through
Pete Coviello
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February 23, 2017
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The algorithm, I have grown fond of declaiming – in bars mostly, though not only – is as much of the inapprehensible hand of...
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My Thoughts are Murder
Popular Fictions
Pete Coviello
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December 9, 2016
10
Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my...
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Our Noise
Bodies and Minds
Pete Coviello
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April 18, 2016
2
We are, my youngest stepdaughter and I, at the bar. This is years ago. It’s true there are not many other 13-year-olds poised on stools and...
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Ghost Stories: Or, What To Do with the Words You Do Not Have
Close Reading
Pete Coviello
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June 25, 2015
9
College, for me, was like coming over the ridgeline of adolescence and discovering, in one long exultant gulp of perception, that I’d lived unknowingly...
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Reading Jeter’s Joy
Close Reading
Pete Coviello
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September 28, 2014
2
I am not a sports fan. It’s true, I watch a little, and have some bits of gear – my Italia jersey that I wear...
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Easy
Bodies and Minds
Pete Coviello
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June 27, 2013
6
Like all people not wholly destitute of heart, when I hear the opening of “ABC” by the Jackson 5 I experience the familiar jolt...
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Love in the Ruins: or, Should I Go To Grad School?
Teacher, Teacher
Pete Coviello
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November 13, 2012
22
On a late-spring day sometime in the mid-90s, I found myself sitting with a friend on a stone bench overlooking a prospect of conventional,...
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Call Me Always
Popular Fictions
Pete Coviello
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June 26, 2012
13
You don’t have to be driving around with a 15-year-old on her first-ever trip to California to fall abruptly, defenselessly in love with “Call...
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Ceci ne pas une Football
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