Craters of the Moon

"He hit me, and it felt like a kiss"

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May 16th 2009
The song on the radio startled me out of my driving trance. I’d never heard it before—I’d only read about it recently, in a biography of Phil Spector. He didn’t write the song—Carole King, of all people, co-wrote it—but his arrangement and production drained it of any hint of irony. The landscape I drove through showed marks of violence as well: it looked as if glaciers had once plo ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more