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P. F. Kluge

Nonfiction

Summer 2003

My Private Germany

By P. F. Kluge

Some are in prison, some are dead; And none has read my books, And yet my thoughts turn back to them. —Theodore Roethke, The Chums   On a window ledge, […]

Fiction

Summer 1989

A Call from Jersey

By P. F. Kluge

I’d been banging out travel columns long enough to know that everything depends on your frame of mind. There were days when Paris could feel like Newark, and there were […]