Posts tagged mario cuomo

I was in nerd heaven this Sunday at One Day University, which is a series of lectures from cool college professors at the Hilton Hotel. I knew I loved my “alma mater” when it was time for Joyce Carol Oates’s class, and I was sucked into a slow-moving stampede of senior citizens trying to get a good seat. This is nuts, I thought, as someone knocked me with a cane. But also: how awesome we all agree that proximity to Joyce Carol Oates is worth fighting for. Then I kicked an 80-year-old woman’s shoe by accident.

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