Instead of traffic heading for the Cape, it's heading for the leafy hills. Instead of Bermuda shorts and tennis shoes, everyone's sporting new leather jackets and boots. Instead of backyard volleyball and cookouts, it's football and chowdah. Instead of corn on the cob, it's candy corn. Stories may be submitted until midnight on October 31st and should be no longer than 500 words.
Good things loom on the horizon, too.
That's why they pay me so much. He's at his ruefully funny best in this bittersweet comedy about a working-class boy from New Jersey at Yale circa 980. When We Were Orphans is his fullest achievement yet. This is the story of Georg Cantor, a brave and brilliant soul, and his quest to find the answer. Yes, Brookline Booksmith's own Jim Behrle.