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Jeff Wrangler:
I highly recommend "Whipping Boy" (Nov. 17), Allen Kurzweil's account of tracking down the bully who bullied him in boarding school. I found it very entertaining. (The book comes out in January.)
Front-Ranger:
On your advice, I read the article and found it to be not at all what I expected. Quite a wild ride! I was thinking the author would confront the bully and there would be some kind of resolution...or not. But he would take solace in the fact that the guy was a lifelong loser. What an understatement!
serious crayons:
Salon ran a series for a while in which people who'd been bullied wrote about finding and confronting them years later, as adults. Of course, most of them lacked all the intrigue involving high-flying international con artists and the like, but there were some interesting stories.
Front-Ranger:
It's almost too late, but the New Yorker is running a cyber-Monday deal on 6 months' subscription!
Front-Ranger:
The December 8 issue has several articles that interested me. Of course I had to read "The View from a Bridge" by Adam Gopnik first, as I witnessed the scourge of "lovelocks" in Paris (and most other places) when I was there in September. I haven't read "The Ride of Their Lives" by Burkhard Bilger yet about rodeo children, but the photos are just heartbreaking.
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