At our table: Vac, Pete, Lee, Barbara, me and Janine. Janine, who incidentally double-majored at the University of Wisconsin in journalism and dance, got to talking about the story she’s working on here this weekend.
This is what she wrote in her workshop proposal:
For the past three years I have had a growing stack of papers [...]

Vac:
It didn’t matter that much of the stadium had already begun to ponder the ceremony of coronation, that most of the 71,101 inside this plastic bubble had already started to imagine a world in which the Patriots had finished off their remarkable 19-0 dash.
What the rest of the world wanted to think, they could think.
In [...]

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]