11. Hodgman works hard to fix the local specificity of these homes: the cairns of Western Mass, the bleak joys of Maine.
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12. New England, the local of Vacationland, is also the heartland of American Gothic tradition: Hawthorne, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, King
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13. Being erudite comedian, Hodgman of course alludes to Lovecraft & Jackson. Also has funny bit about daughter dancing on EB White's grave
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15. I've never seen comedian with a surer sense of place than Hodgman. His New England as solid & tangible as one in Updike's fiction
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16. The horror writers Hodgman alludes to are there not just for local ambiance but because he's also, in his own way, telling horror story
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17. At the heart of Vacationland is Hodgman moving from land of youth (Mass.) to land of his middle age (Maine) with mortality impending.
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18. All the erudition Hodgman displayed was deployed to help sharpen contrast of hippy, youthful Western Mass. with Gothic & solitary Maine
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19. Don't get me wrong: 95% of time in Vacationland you are laughing at Hodgman's wit. But that wit takes you to deeper place than expected
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21. RT @normwilner ... both in the graceful structure and its lovely streaks of melancholy.
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