I’ve written a lot about Cooper Donuts. Reading all of it, though, can be a bit of an exercise, with its 10,000 words stretched out over five separate blog posts (We Need to Talk About Cooper Do-Nuts, Cooper’s Do-Nuts—Addenda, Cooper Do-Nuts Pt. III, Cooper Do-Nuts…AGAIN, and Cooper Do-Nuts FINALE — six blog posts, if you count the bit I added to Checking In on the Bunk).
I decided, therefore, to distill the salient points into one piece. As it’s a bit long I figured that rather than run it here, I’ll upload it elsewhere, so you may read it off-site.
I hope it answers any Cooper questions you might have. I devised it as such: what if you and I went to dinner and discussed the whole shebang? Sort of a My Dinner with Andre where you’re Wallace Shawn and I explain Cooper Do-Nuts Square to you. Now granted that might sound like the worst date ever, but you have to admit you’re curious about how our conversation goes.
The lights dim, the curtain rises…
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(And if it fails to answer your questions, or you’ve something to add, please don’t hesitate to contact me.)
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Brilliant!
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This was a really satisfying wrap-up. I appreciate how you distilled everything down into one piece — the “dinner conversation” framing works well. It made complex history feel personal and real. Thanks for taking the time to gather it all so clearly.
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I really enjoyed how you wrapped up the Cooper Donuts saga—combining everything into one lucid “dinner conversation” makes all the pieces you wrote earlier much more digestible and engaging. You managed to preserve the nuance of its history while making it feel personal and real, and that’s no small feat given how sprawling the story had become. Thanks for putting in the effort to clarify things—it shows respect for your readers’ time and curiosity.
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Thank you for distilling such a complex and layered story into one cohesive narrative. The dinner-conversation framing was clever and made everything much more relatable. Well done on giving closure while preserving the nuance.
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