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Pete Coviello

Same Drugs

Close Reading Pete Coviello - 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 - 0
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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