Author Archives: Jeremy Denk

Falstaff vs. Augusten Burroughs

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 20, 2005
Today on my way home bought a copy of Burroughs’ memoir, ‘Dry.’ Spent the rest of the afternoon and evening on my couch, totally absorbed–or was I simply dragged along? I feel beaten. A completely harrowing account of alcoholism, and the addictive personality in general. So, I finished the book. I can’t say I recommend [...]
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Cory Files, Volume One

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 18, 2005
I was in bed, happily contemplating the length of my just completed nap, when my cell phone rang across the room. Its odd frog-like burbling did not annoy me. With some suggestion of lithe energy, I threw off my down comforter and made it to the phone before it went to voice mail. It was [...]
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Mountain Return

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 14, 2005
An early morning return. Hazy, sleepy Jeremy looks out the window at Adirondack wilderness: green trees against white snow, patches of gray rock, looming heights, reddish-blue dawn sky. If only I hadn’t had those two sweet bean buns! They sit in my stomach as only piles of bean and dough can. Amiable (and so delightfully [...]
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Off to the Adirondacks

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 7, 2005
Yes, after eating buffalo-pheasant-green-chile stew in Chicago, and egg salad sandwiches in Baltimore, I am allowed one fallow day in New York to contemplate the immensities of my apartment, and my carpet’s filth. Why vacuum? Ignore! And off early in the morning, too early, to Penn Station (we used to enter like gods, now like [...]
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