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Yellon and Sorley traded memories and stories — the 2008 opener, featuring Kosuke Fukudome’s tying three-run home run in the ninth inning, still resonated with both — while the neighborhood came more and more alive with each passing minute.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
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Those memories have become part of the way Rios talks about the 250th anniversary itself, not just as a look-back but as an invitation forward.—
Beatrice Peterson,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The bar regulars bravely pursue love and music in the face of addiction, poverty, and haunting pasts.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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The result was a reunion that finally provided (mostly) satisfying questions and answers about participants’ pasts and presents instead of dancing around topics.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Such experiences, Beatty said, can fracture memory, leaving recollections fragmented rather than organized and chronological.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Kahn's recollections about Epstein's safe Kahn also faced questions about his actions immediately after the raid on Epstein's New York townhome in 2019.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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For those of us looking to glimpse behind that glamorous curtain, here are a few novels and histories that help contextualize an American obsession.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Jews and Muslims in America share so much in common, from our foundational religious narratives to our immigrant histories.—
Joshua M. Davidson,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar. 2026
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In the nightmare scenario that kicks off Transcription, the disabling of the narrator’s phone—that ingenious receptacle for distraction, and discomfort, and crap—sets in motion a series of observations and reminiscences that prod the narrator’s unconscious, bringing the novel into being.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The novel, which jumps around in time from spectral reminiscences of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s and early 1990s and into the twenty-first century, follows the members of a Brooklyn family attempting to find stability while struggling with their strange attunement to the dead.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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As noted in yesterdays’ newsletter, O’Hearn is 4-for-5 with two home runs and two doubles against lefties.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Flashbacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flashbacks. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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