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Alice Bloom

Alice Bloom teaches in the department of English at the University of Maine, Farmington. Her essays have appeared in Yale Review, Hudson Review, Perspective, Harper’s, Puckerbrush Review, The Aegean Review, and she is a staff writer for the Mt. Vernon, Maine News and Comment, a newspaper.

— From December 1985
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Letter From unVacationland

The view from the kitchen window is pretty-damned decent, and would encourage one to go on cooking. All looks fairly right with the world. Old friends, guests for the week, are playing and laughing in the backyard despite the drawbacks of the K-Mart badminton set.

December 1985
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