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In a bizarre and tragic scene yesterday, former Toronto Blue Jay (and current New York Yankee) pitcher Cory Lidle perished after flying his plane into an apartment building in New York.

Nathan Sellyn makes us want to invent a new word: a mixture of jealousy and intense admiration (jealoumiration, admilousy?). We don't think there's a word like this in English and Torontoist sadly doesn't have his German-English dictionary handy. So first the jealousy part. Sellyn is 22, just recently published his first collection of short stories Indigenous Beasts with Raincoast Books and he was mentored by American literary giant Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton. But we admire him because it's pretty special to be able to write a short story collection that includes murder by baseball bat, soon-to-be deadbeat dads and a guy who gets beaten up at a strip club before visiting his elderly mom, yet doesn't make us revulse in anger and disgust.