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Googly Eyes - First Place, Wallace Prize for Nonfiction
The clock has twelve eyes, one for each hour. Three and nine o’clock are green, twelve and six are gray, and two is hazel. The eye at five o’clock looks as if it’s just been on a bender; its iris is surrounded by a dense network of red veins, and its sclera (the “white” of the eye) is pink with irritation. The eyes are glued onto a standard-issue square office...
Short Feature
Geography - Second Place, Wallace Prize for Fiction
I don’t like math, talk of the economy goes over my head, and it baffles me that the dollar is backed on “good faith,” but I’ve got a soft spot for the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. I used to tell George, without Galbraith, we might never have met. George was finishing his book when I came to work at Dottie’s, and he spent every afternoon that spring at the...
Fiction
The Catechumen - First Place, Wallace Prize for Fiction
A baptismal font is not a font.
This occurs to me as I take my place beside the pedestal. I run a finger along the rim of the broad, shallow bowl. It’s made of brilliant emerald stone, something like marble, grander than the one at our church. There is a drain in the center. Surely they don’t let the christening water go into the sewage pipes. Where, then? Maybe it...
Non-Fiction
You Are a Princess! - Second Place, Wallace Prize for Nonfiction
This morning, Joan Genest’s first order of business is piggy toes.
“What’s he doing these days, besides sleeping?” Rene, Joan’s husband, directs his question at Marcus’s parents. Assessing Marcus’s infant abilities is crucial to planning the session. “Is he sitting?” He is. “Crawling, walking, riding bikes, doing complex math problems?” Rene’s...
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Over Thanksgiving, I was doing some thinking. In the midst of turkey, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, hominy, cranberry sauce, football and pumpkin pie, I found myself preoccupied by Puritans. Puritans --those endearing folks who wandered over to the pleasant shores of New England to seek refuge from religious persecution -- founded one of the most rigidly theocratic...
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Frank Wilczek is a physics professor at MIT and a Nobel Laureate. He recently visited Yale to deliver two lectures: "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" and "The Universe is a Strange Place," and he took time out to speak to the Magazine about music, mastodons and the state of the cosmos. YDNM: The teaser for your lecture, "The Universe is a Strange...
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How to survive the stars this April
Aries "Some say love, it is a river --" but if you haven't even stepped in a puddle or two, it's your own damn fault. Spring is the time to find some and find it fast. Dig your personality up from wherever you left it last time it was over 30 degrees and make some new friends. Taurus The bull is considered a fertility symbol, so be...
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Best of New Haven: Margaritas
The mission: to identify the best margarita in New Haven. The establishments: c.o. jones, Viva Zapata and El Amigo Felix The team: two Mexicans (Alberto Ortega '04 and Rafael Pizarra '04), a Texan (Stephen Milbank '04), someone named Margarita (Margaret Aiken '04), and someone who just drinks a lot (William Frazier '04). The chaos: We wanted the...
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