During this holiday week, The Common is presenting highlights from the past year. Today’s highlights come from “Essays.”
James Boo takes us on a visit to the Park Slope Coop, while Deborah Thompson trades one piece of history for another in a thrift store.
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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
I took no pleasure in contradicting the president of the United States. I have always had a great deal of respect for the Office of the President, and to publicly disagree with the president was unnerving at best and painful at worst. But it needed to be done.
DAN HECK
After years of being saved by him, it was reflexive, natural. For once, he leans on me, and my steadiness returns, while my sight sharpens. There’s an explosion of lemon-scented Pine-Sol. We laugh and pretend we’re caught in the rain. Intimate, wet, laughter. I’m safe.
GRZEGORZ KASDEPKE
The outcome of the battle over my stomach (one way to my heart) was a foregone conclusion. Granny deployed sophisticated weapons. Tomato soup, for example, cherry compote, or a special open sandwich...fresh bread, proper butter, fragrant tomatoes...
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