May 2012
2 posts
Busboys and Bistros
My favorite thing about this essay by Jackie Kruszewski is the way it embraces, and revels in the delights of, a job that most of us would consider stressful and exhausting. It’s true: Jackie loves waitressing. She does it for fun.
Last year (or maybe it was the year before?), Jackie asked me to recommend a book by a Russian author. She was canvassing friends for travel-appropriate...
Big Time
Here is the story I told at the Story League contest “Odd Jobs: Things We’ve Done for Money,” at Busboys and Poets on Sunday.
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Big Time By Sean Carman For six months I lived in a hotel, in Boise, Idaho, working on a trial in federal court.
It was like being chained to the wheel of suffering.
For one thing, every day was the same. We had breakfast, then...
