L2L Just Like the Ones We Used to Know

“Just Like the Ones We Used to Know”

Connie Willis

This week ... our third and last discussion of Connie Willis’s holiday stories, “Just Like the Ones We Used to Know.” It’s the title story (in Willis pop-culture wink-winking) of her collection A Lot Like Christmas. As Dr. C travels for the holidays during our own winter weather, Leigh and P. T. quote from and discuss the story, an ensemble of reactions to a mysterious winter storm. It even snows in Savannah — imagine that. (Also woven in ... a Hanukkah poem by Philip M. Raskin and “Behaving Like a Jew” by Gerald Stern.)