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Nick Arvin
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Author of MAD BOY from Europa Editions + 3 other books of fiction. Writing in the NYer, NYT, WSJ, Ploughshares. Also, an engineer! Technical and consulting work in green energy. Colorado based.
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The gloaming of Thanksgiving eve.
Pink orange sunset clouds behind naked trees in silhouette.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Actually, there's a big difference between "in to" and "into."
News: She turned her father into police for a double murder, but someone else close to her was charged
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My wife does many amazing things, and one of them is furniture restoration. Look at this insanity.
Old ugly dresser Fabulous like new dresser
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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My dad, 79 years old, has decided to get into wood carving. Here is a koala on a book.
Hand holds a carved koala on a book, painted gray and blue.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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For this drivel, Deepak Chopra set Importance: High.
From: Deepak Chopra Sent: 7/29/2016 1:12:10 PM To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Importance: High Roman poet whose name I forget - "Nothing human is foreign to me. " Deepak Chopra 2013 Costa Del Mar Road Carlsbad, CA 92009
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Fabulous skies this afternoon over the Flatirons.
Pine trees in foreground and middle distance with expanse of sky overhead broken by dappled clouds
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Big bottles of pear brandy at Leopold Bros.
Nine large clear bottles on a shelf
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Amazing story idea for you here on ESPN.
Kafka will serve as interim head coach, the Giants' sixth head coach since 2016. What should we expect from the former assistant head coach and offensive coordinator?
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Shoe fruit.
Sunset in oranges and blues in background, with a power line running across the view and a shoe hanging from it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Photos by Vivian Maier.
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Local restaurant (Work+Class) has this indoor hydroponic farm, and nothing has ever so effectively made me feel like I'm on a spaceship.
Rows of green leafy plants are growing in vertical columns from floor to ceiling. The plants are illuminated by purple LED grow lights.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Let my memoir be titled How to Have Fun with Marzipan.
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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We made a veggie plate!
Veggie plate with the veggies arranged to look like a skeleton
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Love it. Now do the cottagecore garden of forking paths.
Tiny library of Babel cartoon, a reference to "The Library of Babel" by Borges
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Use of "lays" is incorrect here, yeah? The only reason I'm doubting myself at all is that this is the friggin New Yorker.
the novel-but not its reality. "Mama, do not weep," says Zosima's young brother as he lays dying, "life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the world over." In another a murderer tells Zosima
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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My nephew did excellent work with this.
Jack-o'-lantern. The enormous stem has been carved down. The jack-o'-lantern looks kind of like a shrunken head.
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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An obscene stem.
Pumpkin with enormous stem on top
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Wet leaves on a rainy day.
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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In Michigan for work, and it's a good time to be in Michigan.
Trees, light, color of autumn leaves.
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This one kind of summed it up for me.
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Many thousands in Denver, human and T-Rex.
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Autumn luminosity.
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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View today from Matthews Winters Park.
Rocky ridge, low brush in autumn colors, distant dark mountains, blue sky streaked by clouds
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I'm honored that the University of Colorado, Boulder, English Department chose my novel MAD BOY for this year's Common Read, and I'm really looking forward to discussing it with students.

If you can, come join us for the public event on Thursday 10/16 @ 5:00!
Join us for a reading and discussion with Nick Arvin, author of this year's Common Read book, Mad Boy, about a boy traversing the wilds of Maryland and Virginia during the war of 1812, on a quest to bury his mother and reunite his family. Arvin will read from the book, discuss the writing and research process, and talk about his double career path as a novelist and an engineer. EVENT DETAILS OCTOBER 16, 2025 5-6PM AT THE CENTER FOR BRITISH & IRISH STUDIES (LIBR M549) FOOD AND DRINK PROVIDED STARTING AT 4:30 PM
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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An amazing graph, what happens when you destigmatize a behavior.
Graph, titled "The history of left-handedness," shows the rate of left-handedness among Americans by year of birth. The graph illustrates a significant increase in the percentage of left-handed people from the early 1900s to the 1960s, after which the rate stabilized.
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM