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After a while I asked about his wife.

‘You’d be surprised,’ he said. ‘I lucked out with Jen. You wouldn’t know to look at me but my wife is a very attractive woman. You wouldn’t pick her from a line-up. You’d guess too low, I’d make a bet on that. She’s a very attractive woman. I’ve had four aff…

raig was the full-time trucker and I worked weekends with the other girls in the store. The day that I came to work in hardware was the day that Craig became a kind of luminary in the timber yard. He shredded an order sheet in his customer’s face, screamed, ‘Don’t you treat me like this shitty job …

It’s discovering that almost everyone you truly liked has died, that you are now engaged in a dire, depressing contest with all those still living, and that winning would be the most inconsolable, loneliest victory anyone could achieve. Alive after all that, and in many areas of life, already dead.…

[...] Due to some sort of gender divide, my father only said a sentence or two about it to me. My mother took on the task of expressing their shared anger. ‘We don’t pay for you to go to school so you can sing the International in the lycée courtyard,’ she shouted at me that evening, adding numerou…

The screen generation is not as easy to read. The fact that they do not read – at least not the way we read – means that they are inscrutable in a way that cannot be chalked up only to a proverbial generational divide. They are in some sense inscrutable to each other. Our text culture created a gen…