Then came that July Sunday afternoon when our house suddenly emptied, and we were the only ones there, and fire... [查看全文]
I knew exactly what phrase in the piece must have stirred him the first time, and each time I played it, I w... [查看全文]
He must have noticed I was shaken and in an effort to make it up to me began asking me questions about the ... [查看全文]
This alternation of running and swimming was simply his routine in graduate school. Did he run on the Sabbath? ... [查看全文]
I must have shot him a similarly wicked glance.For two days our conversations came to a sudden halt.On the long... [查看全文]
At dinner on his third evening, I sensed that he was staring at me as I was explaining Haydn’s Seven Las... [查看全文]
I had put reading last on my list, thinking that, with the willful, brazen attitude he’d displayed so far,... [查看全文]
Instead, he said he wanted to open an account in one of the banks in B., then pay a visit to his Italian tr... [查看全文]
Maybe it started soon after his arrival during one of those grinding lunches when he sat next to me and it fi... [查看全文]
Taking in summer guests was my parents’ way of helping young academics revise a manuscript before publicatio... [查看全文]