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Dawn Powell - Dawn Powell The American Writer, By Gore Vidal - Presented by Library of America

Once upon a time, New York City was as delightful a place to live in as to visit. There were many amenities, as they say in brochures. One was something called Broadway, where dozens of plays opened…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (394 words)

Haruki Murakami on Translating The Great Gatsby - GalleyCat

The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami once translated The Great Gatsby for Japanese readers. In Columbia University Press’ In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It…
AUTHOR:Jason Boog
LENGTH: 1 minutes (293 words)

A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes

Ezra Pound—the expatriate poet, unhinged fascist, and obstinate dreamer—was in the productive phase of a mental breakdown at the time of his 1945 arrest for treason and his subsequent detention at an…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5598 words)
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We Have Always Lived On Mars by Cecil Castellucci

Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface.  The crew,…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2775 words)
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How I Lost $500,000 for Love

I was 27 the year my first novel sold for half a million dollars. During the three years I spent writing the book, I’d gotten by on next to nothing, eating ramen noodles for dinner and living…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (786 words)

Up All Night

Some people can’t go to sleep until late; others can’t sleep in. Both suffer “social jet lag.” Illustration by Nishant Choksi.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1084 words)

The Three Sisters of PyongYang by Laura Shin

Photos courtesy Laura Shin One day in junior high, I was walking in the mall and noticed a cute toddler being pushed in a stroller toward me. I smiled at him, but as he and his mother went by, he…
AUTHOR:Laura Shin
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3982 words)
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The House of Pain

“People don’t think Republicans have their back,” Cantor said. The problem is not “necessarily our policies” but how “we’ve been portrayed.”…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (950 words)

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9606 words)
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