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(Radio On!)

For a while in the mid-1970s, my most reliable companion was a round yellow Panasonic Toot-a-Loop “bracelet” radio.  Shaped like a lopsided donut, it...

Our Noise

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...

Learning to Read at Seventeen

Getting the lyrics wrong, and yet learning to abide.The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once observed that people don’t strive to be what they already are....

The Piano Dump

The New York Times has a nasty habit of running front-page stories, often on Mondays, from what I think of as the “Oh, how...

Awkward Ages

For a while now I’ve been thinking about prophecy, counterfactuals, and time out of joint in twentieth-century adolescence. I’ve been searching under a lot...