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The House That Hova Built

By ZADIE SMITH | September 6, 2012 It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper. Whatever you say must be considered from at…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (884 words)

My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York

Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen. In 1967, Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, she was…
AUTHOR:Brent Cox
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5736 words)

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