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MYSTERIES
1 ITHACA
One man's view of the place we all call home.
by Bryan Di Salvatore
ate last summer, Montana resident Bryan
Di Salvatore set up shop in Ithaca. His
wife, writer Dee McNamer, had accepted
a writer-in-residence position with Cornells English
department for the fall semester, and Di Salvatore,
a writer whose work appears frequently in The
New Yorker, looked forward to a chance to come
east and watch the leaves change, and to finish a
novel he's been working on for quite some time.
Now, Di Salvatore has lived in a variety of places—he was
raised in Southern California, studied at Yale, worked in New
York City and now calls Missoula, Montana home—but in a long
conversation at a madhouse a few miles from campus he noted
that Ithaca seemed quite a bit unlike any other place he'd
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