Author: Jillian Lee Adamson
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Neal Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age’
Some books arrive in your life, make their impression, and move on. Others settle in and stay. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age has been one of the quiet constants in mine. I first encountered it as an audiobook, sometime not long after I joined Audible in around 2003. It was one of the earliest things…
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My Sister and Her Sign
I don’t see my sister’s face in the photograph.I see her arm. It is stretched upward, steady, holding something taller than she is: a woman in red with her fist raised. On the woman’s back, in blunt black letters, are the words SEARCH THE LANDFILLS. It is not a decorative sign.It is not clever.It is…
