Contents May Have Shifted #49 - #60
2011; University of Iowa; Volume: 41; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.6975
ISSN2330-0361
Autores Resumo49-Denver, Colorado I get out of Doug Olsen's black-sheeted bed at 5:30 in the morning, get a double latte at Peet's, and meet the ceo in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart, so he can follow me to the ranch.The ceo gives me an antique bopk called Five in One, or How To Make and Save Money where all the little pieces of advice are numbered and include one thousand mini-chapters, for example #86 Lice Destroyers, and #349 Lemon and Its Value, and #655 How to Make your Clothes Last Longer, and #760 Butter Making and Marketing, and #858 Blackhead Remedy, and #948 You Will Never Be Sorry If and #962 How to Find Out a Girl's Age Without Asking Her.As the ceo zips up Kenosha Pass behind me in his Porsche I think, this is the summer when my life turns into a reality TV show.In Aspen last week, at the millionaire's house with the three original Chagalls on the wall, the Latina writer ate Pedigree dog food, I guess, to make a point.Later when they made us tell "campfire stories" (there was no campfire) about "one thing we know for sure" to the people who were will ing to pay two hundred dollars a plate for barbecued chicken and a chance to sit next to Tony Hillerman (who didn't show up), every single one of us misbehaved.I went first and said the thing I knew for sure was something I had sus pected all along and it was that black people were way cooler than white people, and Ron told the joke about King Kong that goes, "If they didn't want to let him out of the jungle, why'd they make the door so fucking big," and M. Scott Momaday told a series of tales where the cunning Indians outsmart the white people every time, and then Annick started out as if she was going to toe the line, saying one thing she knew for sure was that being a grand mother was way better than being a mother, and all of the rich people who paid two hundred dollars to eat barbecued chicken with Tony Hillerman (who didn't show up) started nodding, knowingly, but then she started to talk about her cracked and sore and leaking nipples and it became quite clear that she was not.
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