Jordan Dotson

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Look at me, I’m riding the subway!

October 15, 2014 By Jordan

I have also volunteered as a tutor, helping public-school children learn to lie about it.

…from this New Yorker spoof of a college application essay, by Paul Rudnick, which made me laugh out loud, literally, six times.

Filed Under: Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: New Yorker

Yesterday is two days before tomorrow…

June 11, 2014 By Jordan

Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out…

…from Haruki Murakami‘s latest short story in the New Yorker, Yesterday, which in some ways is like a LIT 101 primer for his entire body of work.

Filed Under: Prose Porn, Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Haruki Murakami, New Yorker