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...undone. Executing Rutledge would be a waste, not so much of his diminished humanity, but of society's moral capital. The gunslinging heroes of corny adventure fiction had it right: there are guys not worth killing. Let Rutledge sit and stew in his 8-ft. by 5-ft. pen in Alabama. Forget...
...down the names and needs of 3,000 families. But her gentleness turns to steel when she browbeats bureaucrats or bankers to help the garbage pickers. She envisions motorized vehicles to replace the dilapidated donkey carts. She wants to replace pickers' filthy garments with clean uniforms and to pen the pigs instead of allowing them to roam in and out of homes. Says she: "It will cost money, but it won't be expensive. I want to prove it's possible to be a clean and dignified garbage collector, and slowly, slowly, we will do it. With...
...cream of Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will...
...participant, as are his parents and grandmother: "As we sit for this last picture, each of us in this room has been similarly reduced, our lives slowly coming together, reduced to this peaceful essence layered by fragrant pipe smoke, this remedy of time that my mother's pen stroke seems to prescribe with each scratch upon a term paper. My travels are over." And so is his moving, inclusive book, near the point at which it opened: the end that is the beginning of memory. -By Paul Gray
...drawing career in 1956--to play on and give wide exposure to the humorous foibles of his liberal intellectual crowd. He soon learned, however, that "these characters, self-obsessed as they were, could not live independently of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the president of their existence." So he sharpened his pen on politics as well, and has drawn about people, presidencies, and their interaction ever since...