Tony Soprano stands in the middle of Bates College in Maine, looking skeptical and puffing his way through a cigar while waiting for his daughter, Meadow, to exit an information session. Students in backpacks, shorts, and baseball hats walk past him while a bell gently tolls in the distance. The sunny, tree-lined campus looks familiar to me—the scene was actually filmed at Drew University in New Jersey, five minutes from my childhood house, where I’d gone regularly for soccer practices and summer camps.
Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, and The Atlantic. His latest book is "The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America."
