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The Drum

Issue 6. November 2010

MICHELLE HOOVER The Quickening

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Michelle Hoover reads from her novel The Quickening at the November 15 Four Stories event, choosing a scene that dramatizes the themes of loss and perseverance at the novel's core.

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FAITH SALIE Four Stories Introduction

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Faith Salie welcomes the crowd at Cambridge's Enormous Room to the November 15 Four Stories event in collaboration with The Drum, goes over the ground rules--and opines on The Great Gatsby, pageants, and catheters.

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ETHAN GILSDORF Just To See If I Could

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Reading at the November 15 Four Stories event, Ethan Gilsdorf begins with a boy facing a woodchuck, and leads us through a humorous and complex contemplation of the nature of play, cruelty, and kindness, in his essay "Just To See If I Could".

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theme: comedy

theme: crisis

theme: relationships

theme: family

genre: essay

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