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...emotional and physical state at the time of his thesis deadline, “Alive Enough” addresses themes of melancholic family dysfunction and emotional confusion, presented in subtle, but evocative language. Despite the setting and the occasional piece—such as “The Dog Story”—that borders on memoir, Keenan says his work does not stem primarily from personal experience. “Your writing is always informed by experience. We all have a vocabulary of narratives, impressions, and images that is largely defined by our personal experiences. I draw...
...worked together six months earlier on a Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial. He asked her to drop by his office, she recalls, and by the end of the day, Lynch was cast in Best in Show. The film - a loose, often improvised look at the odd world of competitive dog breeding - suited the appetite for collaboration that Lynch whetted at Second City: "I'm not playing small by being in an ensemble," she says. "It's my favorite way to work." Her co-stars enjoy her too. "There are only a few people out there who are universally beloved," says...
Henry is artistically stymied: his publishers don't get his new book, which is about the Holocaust, and even he seems a little fuzzy about what its point is. So he bails on writing altogether. He moves to a new city, gets a dog and a cat, gets his wife pregnant and generally forgets about books entirely - until he receives a strange fan letter from an elderly, misanthropic taxidermist who's working on a play and wants Henry's help...
...Navy did a pretty good job and didn’t roll over or give up an inch,” Disanto said. “And up until 200 [meters] to go...it was a real dog fight...
Disaster A week later, Ellis was still waiting for the operation to be approved, when disaster struck - and a signature Afghan disaster at that. At about 5 a.m. on April 12, an American convoy passing through Senjaray on the Ring Road slowed on the curve in front of Dog Company's outpost. A passenger bus came up behind the convoy, traveling at a rate of speed the Americans deemed suspicious. The convoy tried to signal the bus to stop; the soldiers apparently used hand signals and pen flares, but fired no warning shots according to the McChrystal protocol...