The James Otis School is the latest Boston Public School to get shut down for a week due to concerns about the swine flu. The Otis, located on Marion Street in East Boston, is my alma mater, and in recent days there has been a spike in the number of students calling in sick. It's the ninth school in the city closed because of the flu.
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- "The Rubber Room," by Steven Brill, The New Yorker, 31 Aug 09
- Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
- Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace
- Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
- Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy
- "Most Likely to Succeed," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 15 Dec 08
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- The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
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- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Extreme Chocolate," by Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 29 Oct 07
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- Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
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- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- "The War Within Islam," interview with Reza Aslan, The Sun, Dec 06
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Favorite New Yorker cartoon
"This is gonna hurt like hell."
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