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Homer on the Range

From Sophocles to Danielle Smith

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin is the author of, most recently, The Comedian’s Book of the Dead.

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Gary Barwin

Not the Same as Reading It

A lifetime of dipping in and out of Tristram Shandy September 2026
I wish my father, Norman Barwin, or my mother, Myrna Barwin — or indeed both of them, as they were equally responsible — had been more careful when they conceived me. Procreation is a matter of which particular sperm meets which particular egg, and so its composition is fluid. (It is like reading: that conjunction of a certain text with a certain…