Posts Tagged ‘historical events’
Heisenberg and the A-Bomb: Just Say No
March 27, 2017
I read through the article breathlessly, astonished at the moral implications of what I was learning. When I got to the end, I closed my eyes and breathed deeply, trying to begin to take in the import of what I’d just read. The article was “The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb,” by Thomas Powers,…
Read MoreAn Interview with George Saunders, Part 1
March 6, 2017
Beloved fiction writer George Saunders has long been known for his daring short stories, collected most recently in 2013’s Story Prize-winning Tenth of December, and his keen interest in moral introspection, highlighted by his much-shared commencement speech for 2013 Syracuse University graduates about the importance of kindness. Saunders just published his first novel, Lincoln in…
Read MoreMy September 11 Story, and Ours, Part II
September 13, 2016
For Scott Simon, and for Bill Craven Continued from yesterday. In the back of my closet, inside a cellophane folder where I keep the rarest papers I own, there is a plain piece of unremarkable 8 ½ by 11 printer paper. At the top of the paper is the inscrutable coding “TC2001091307CD22AM.” Just to look…
Read MoreMy September 11, and Ours: Part I
September 12, 2016
We knew in an instant everything about our lives had changed, but we did not know how much, or that everything would be different from what we had thought.
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