Tag Archives: pausing to take note of history

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Posted on September 8, 2015 by Matt Ruff

I’m a half century old today. I was going to add a joke about how I was a teenager only yesterday, but it’s not true. When I look at the above photo—that’s me at 15, in my bedroom in Queens … Continue reading →

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25 years

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Matt Ruff

I let the actual anniversary slip by unnoticed, but 2013 was my twenty-fifth year as a published novelist. When you’ve always known what you want to do with your life, and you’re fortunate enough to actually be able to do … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Week

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Matt Ruff

After 35 years together, Jane Lighty and Pete-e Petersen become the first gay couple to receive a marriage license in Washington state:

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FYI, I’m on Twitter now

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Matt Ruff

@bymattruff

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Murderer shot by Union troops

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Matt Ruff

On CNN last night they were making repeated comparisons between Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler, but it seems to me the more apt comparison is to John Wilkes Booth: a spoiled rich kid who convinced himself he had a … Continue reading →

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The Mirage, now with more synchronicity

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Matt Ruff

I finished and delivered the edited manuscript yesterday. Copyediting is next, but all the heavy lifting is essentially done. It’s been a very odd experience working on this final draft with the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East … Continue reading →

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Feb. 11, 2011

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Matt Ruff

[Via Andrew Sullivan]

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Lollipop guild flag at half-staff

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Matt Ruff

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz, and also served as an aviator during World War II, is dead at 94.

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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Matt Ruff

First thought: Those wacky Swedes Norwegians must really want to mess with Glenn Beck’s head. Second thought: I hope the events of the next few years in Afghanistan don’t make this seem horribly ironic.

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Mr. McCourt (1930-2009)

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Matt Ruff

Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, has died at the age of 78. Like thousands of other people, I remember him as Mr. McCourt, the high-school creative-writing teacher who used to entertain me and my classmates with … Continue reading →

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