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The End and Don King

In the back room of Manhattan's Carnegie Deli, Don King picked at a pastrami sandwich with his fingers. He had just been asked a question about his electric hair and, for the first time in a day…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6655 words)

Bracing for Retaliation

HOW BOUT THAT. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind al-Qaida, is dead after a Sunday raid in a Pakistani city just miles from Islamabad, President Obama announced late Sunday night. Hundreds…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1382 words)
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Mary Gaitskill Recommends Saul Bellow, Part 1

by Saul Bellow Recommended by Mary Gaitskill Part 1 of 2 To my children and grandchildren WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH GOING ON, more than you can bear, you may choose to assume that nothing in particular…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6618 words)

Former NFL QB Jon Kitna finds ‘gold mine’ at a school where other teachers only saw problems

TACOMA, Wash. – Before he left the Dallas Cowboys to come home again, Jon Kitna had one request of the two principals who run Lincoln High School: Give me your worst students. The other…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3421 words)
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Notes on Writing a Novel

by Elizabeth BowenPlot.—Essential. The Pre-Essential. Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to. It is what is left after…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (271 words)

The Long Good-Bye

Fifty years ago this month, striking printers shut down seven New York City newspapers. The strike would last for 114 days and helped to kill four of those newspapers. “This was an absolutely…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5834 words)

A Rich Man

Horace and Loneese Perkins—one child, one grandchild—lived most unhappily together for more than twelve years in Apartment 230 at Sunset House, a building for senior citizens at 1202…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 4, 2003
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1160 words)

Raised Not to Hope Too Hard

Sherley Anne Williams was delighted when the New York Times listed her novel on its recommended reading list. The book had gone into a third printing, and her publisher had nominated the novel for a…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2000
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1662 words)
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