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Or Joel’s vacation.

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On your behalf, I’ve rounded up some great long reads you may have missed.

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It’s the kind of picture you find once every few years, in a different junk drawer each time, hidden amongst the pieces of detritus that fill out the borders of your life.

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“Our Symptoms, Ourselves” Alexandra Kimball Hazlitt November 29, 2012 “It is as if she lives each moment twice: first through direct experience, and then through the lens of a perceived non-crazy other.” This is Alexandra Kimball’s description of her friend…

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I got a letter from David. He thinks Bruce (from my play) is a latent homosexual. Better latent than never, as Brad says.

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I got on the L at 6th Ave. You were giving me the once over through the window before the doors opened so I could get on. You gave up your seat for old ladies and we stood next to each other on the way to Brooklyn.

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I was looking for another orifice.

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My cheeks hurt and I hate that these are these are the kinds of words that elicit the best response from me, swellings of pride in my chest; as if I’m actually skinny enough for someone to comment on it.

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Back at my desk, I thought, “This is exactly what it feels like” and “I am a robot” and “Yesterday was a break point for me.”

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That hat cost $80. That man had $80 to spend on a hat. That man had a job and a lifestyle which afforded him the cost of a week’s worth of Paul’s groceries for something the man could wear on his head.