What “Top Gun” has in common with “The Odyssey” — salon.com

Middle Men (Simon & Schuster), Jim Gavin “In the collection, 'Bermuda,' a story of young love, is totally autobiographical. I made a disastrous trip to Bermuda [to visit an estranged lover]. I was a young man, and the woman was older. It took me 10 years, and a lot of distance, to actually see it for what it really was, to get past it, and see the comic element of how clueless I was, or anyone at that age is. You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.” See more at: http://www.pen.org/blog/recommended-reading-debut-fiction#sthash.L1Aq28NS.dpuf

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