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How to stand up against hate
May and Stark: Recent incidents remind us not to be passive bystanders We need to be able to count on each other for bystander intervention, they write
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TALKING WITH PAULA FOX / Delightful Characters
\"About four years ago, Jonathan Franzen-who eventually did the introduction for the new edition - wrote me a letter and said he couldn't get hold of copies of Desperate Characters for the class he was teaching at Swarthmore. He asked me to come give a reading to his class, which I did. Then Jonathan got an assignment for Harper's to write a long article about contemporary literature, in which he mentioned 'Desperate Characters' quite a lot. \"Tom Bissell, who is now my young editor at Norton, happened to read it, and began to pursue a copy of the novel. He couldn't find it- it was lost or missing from all the libraries. So finally he got my address from Jonathan, and wrote me a letter, asking would I send him a copy. So I instantly did it that very day. With the consequence that it arrived in the tiniest envelope-I squeezed it in, it was all I had and the local stationery store was closed. A week later Tom called me and said they were going to bring 'Desperate Characters' out again.\" [Paula] Fox speaks with me in a sunny corner of her four-story brownstone in Cobble Hill. At 76, she is vibrant and voluble. She has a deep, soft voice, with the enviably precise diction particular to her generation. While we talk, her elegance is only briefly compromised for the sake of cooing at a small tabby kitten she's recently taken in from the street.
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Quotes: CAPTURE THE FLAG, by Rebecca Chace
IN ONE of the most mournful lines in American literature, James Agee inscribed the thoughts of a young man falling asleep among his family, \"who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home: but will not, no, will not, not now, not ever; but will not ever tell me who I am.\" It is the adolescent's lament: Please tell me who I am. Set in the 1970s, Rebecca Chace's first novel, \"Capture the Flag,\" portrays a young woman moving through the separated and recombinant families of late bohemianism, looking for someplace she belongs. Chace's narrative is loosely structured around four episodes of an annual game of capture the flag, played between the families of two old college pals. For Luke and his daughter, Annie (our searcher, who's 11 when the book opens), the game is serious as blood. They strategize all year and wear greasepaint camouflage to the event. Annie's mother is already stepping out of the picture when the story picks up, departing her compact family for hospital-grade depression and then divorce. The father of the other family, Peter, a mild lech and a souse, has already had three daughters, divorced and remarried a divorced woman with two sons. Although there are only 10 people involved here, the blood ties are confusing enough that Chace provides a list of the players, as if we were about to read a Russian epic spanning generations.
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THE SMALL PRESS / So Happy Together
Lou and Renata, a playwright and a would-be actress, meet in a hazy season of Vermont summer stock. Love is a three-page whirlwind. They get married and embark, as though boarding a ship, on a life of devotion to each other and their ideals. Early in the marriage, Renata works a day job at a newspaper. \"My coworkers had no idea that I was debating the reasons people step aside from a life of complementary colors and practical cars onto a path where dreams would not be sublimated by expensive attractive possessions,\" she muses. And it goes on. \"Lou and I were seduced by the unknown, where love and ambition might destroy each other. And us.\" Bauer's premise - a character study of people who depart from social norms and their ho-hum roots - has potential. The problem is, Renata and Lou turn away from the values and hopes they'd \"been born to\" early in the novel, and spend the rest of it congratulating themselves. As unbecoming as this might be in real live humans, it's insufferable in fictional characters. Renata auditions and auditions (and somewhere between chapters gets a few parts), but feels like she's \"spent her whole life waiting - for Lou, for callbacks, for that part she really wanted, for someone - anyone - to notice her.\" Time passes again. Lou's Hollywood success declines. Always, Lou and Renata, we are told, are sustained by their deep, sticky love for one another. They have lots of sex. They take baths together. We are, it seems, to admire them.
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How to Talk to Strangers
I love to travel alone for one very particular reason: the strangers I meet. The conversations we have and their unexpected turns send me deep into the places I go, far beyond skimming the surface lightly. I talk to people who live there, travelers, anyone with a story, anyone who may turn my path a different way from what I had planned.
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How to Talk to Strangers
Once on an overnight train from Frankfurt to Milan, I shared a cabin with a prim German woman from outside the city, maybe in her 70s, clutching a newspaper. No one else knew either, so I had dinner on a pub stool riveted by the stories a woman drinking straight gin told me about her years as a spy.
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WHAT DOES community MEAN IN THE 21ST CENTURY?(A MOMENT BIG QUESTION)
DAVID BROOKS, PATRICK DENEEN, ANITA DIAMANT, NADINE EPSTEIN, MICAH GOODMAN, VIVIAN GORNICK, CHARLES HECKSCHER, SAMUEL HEILMAN, SARA HOROWITZ, A.J. JACOBS, T. M. LUHRMANN, SUSAN NEIMAN, KIO STARK, SHERRY TURKLE AND A.B. YEHOSHUA DIANE M. BOLZ, SARAH BREGER, LILLY GELMAN, GEORGE E. JOHNSON, AMY E. SCHWARTZ, FRANCIE WEINMAN SCHWARTZ, ELLEN WEXLER AND LAURENCE WOLFF Read more interview at momentmag.com/community Human beings are gregarious. Since the dawn of time, we have created groups, societies and communities. What then is the future of community? -Nadine Epstein, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, Moment -Andres Spokoiny, President and CEO, Jewish Funders Network ANITA DIAMANT Community, like all human concepts, varies from here to there and changes over time: tribe, village, guild, town, neighborhood, union, fraternity, bowling league, parent-teacher association, church, mosque, synagogue. Along the way, my personal sense of community expanded from \"synagogue Jew\" to feeling myself part of a larger, more diverse and amorphous Jewish world. [...]of COVID-19, many more of us are finding our way there as well:
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