Barrel Fever has the Santaland Diaries in it. Dress Your Family in Courdory and Denim was also great. The chapter about his dad talking about buying a place at the beach was SO my family. We even went to the same beach (and I just moved from there too). The chapter about the Rooster was hilarious.
I saw him at a performance in Chicago where I ended up sitting next to Sarah Vowell. That was weird.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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