Stuart,

I was just browsing through your silly bus. Did Roth's story take place at Fort Lost in the Woods? - er, I mean Fort Leonard Wood? I don't know of any other Army post in MO, there is an AF base though. You never know.

Also, tell me about Tillie Olson. I picked up SILENCES a few years ago just because I liked the concept of it. I haven't read it yet (where is it among all our boxes) but this is not unusual for me to read books long after they've been purchased. Oh, I mean tell me about Tillie Olson in person not a treatise on her works, please.