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Some random kid picks up his jacket to leave and a bottle of red wine drops from the pocket, smashing to the floor. He is probably a first-year. He looks “real” stupid. The poor girl who comes over with a broom and a dustpan to clean it up looks “real” upset when she sees the amount of unnecessary work that this rube has caused her. Two lovers stare into eachother’s eyes as the red wine seeps under their table, soaking their jackets and bags. They...
...talks, Christmas navigates the rows of seats in Paine Concert Hall with his broom, sweeping spent pens and wrappers from the hardwood floor onto his dustpan...
Organizers gave the statue a broom, a dustpan and a T-shirt reading "Janitor for a living wage," and union members tossed bags of trash at his feet...
...Aside from Dickens, few realized what they had done; otherwise, they probably would have run, not walked, from the dustpan of history," Flynn said...
Anyone shrewd enough to make a living in the man-of-letters dodge knows that an occasional desk-clearing miscellany, a dustpan with hard covers, will be indulged between actual, seat-of-the-pants books. To E. (for Edgar) L. (for Lawrence) Doctorow's credit, he includes no commencement speeches, letters to the Times, book reviews or similar lint balls in this between-books collection. Instead, the author of Ragtime and Loon Lake offers six short stories, impeccably done, rather academic, mostly forgettable, and one 65-page mishmash called, for want of an accurate tag, a novella. The mishmash...