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Rob Long

August 2022

Two pieces, from 2007 and 2011, in which I do not predict the future....
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July 2022

memories of Tower Records...
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a story in 2 parts
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Strongmen Old and New
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They say that moments before your death, your life will flash before your eyes. I’m here to tell you this is not strictly true.
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June 2022

For some reason, they asked me to write an essay for The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job You’ll Ever Love, despite being an unmarried and…
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I wrote this a few years ago, for a volume called The Seven Deadly Virtues. I was in pretty exalted company — my fellow contributors were all writers I…
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Do me a favor: as you read this, pretend you have a small computer-mouse shaped thing in your hand, and pretend there’s a dial attached to the thing…
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May 2022

I have a friend who, when you’re at the movies and something funny happens on screen, he laughs and then he looks at you, to see if you’re laughing…
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I heard this week that some people in Europe are opening a film school. I wish they had called me first. I think I could have saved them a lot of money…
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Years ago, when I told my agent that I had written a book, she said to me: “Hey, if you wanted eight hundred dollars, I would’ve given you eight hundred…
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