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...times may be a’changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair Rachel E. Dry interviewed local crossword-writing maven, Brendan Emmett Quigley. Three years later, Quigley returns to our pages with a very special FM-related puzzle. Enjoy...
...premise of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches (Random House; 178 pages) is so wondrously slight, it's hardly there at all. Emmett, 44, is an editor of medical textbooks who lives in an old farmhouse in the country with his wife and two children. Every morning at 4 or 5, Emmett goes downstairs, lights a fire and sits by it, "the sole node of wakefulness at the heart of the sleeping world." He thinks about small, inconsequential things: the furious way his pet duck pecks at a frozen log "as if she were Teletyping a wire service story...
...returns to the delightfully discursive, observational voice he used in his first novel, The Mezzanine. But in A Box of Matches this voice has acquired a husky resonance it never had before, a basso register that hints at dark, existential depths. Daydreams of suicide flit at the edge of Emmett's consciousness, intimations of illness, echoes of past pain...
...what Emmett is doing in his early-morning idylls is learning to love the trivia of daily existence--and he finds some of his life's missing meaning there. Baker doesn't just show us this: his prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains, so that as we read, we learn to see the way Emmett sees and find the beauty he finds. By the end of A Box of Matches, Emmett is a different person: a better, happier, more observant person. You just might find that you're one too. --By Lev Grossman
After the game Friday, Colgate coach Emmett Davis told reporters he couldn’t have been more impressed with Prasse-Freeman...