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A Visit With Patrick Leigh Fermor: Part 1

Patrick Leigh Fermor, center, with members of the General Heinrich Kreipe Abduction Team: Georgios Tyrakis, William Stanley Moss, Emmanouil Paterakis, and Antonios Papaleonidas. It has been said of…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3862 words)

Housebreaking

On their last day they visited a town where they had heard there’d been a number of civilian casualties. They were spending the afternoon with a family—cousins of one of the…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (600 words)

Southern Holiday, Part 1

Maude Callen's clinic in Berkeley County. On Tuesday morning, December 11, I drove a rented 2013 Chevrolet Impala out of Chapel Hill on I-40 East, the first miles of a twenty-two-day road trip around…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1755 words)

On The Road Again

A dirt road scrolls beneath a pair of huarache sandals. In a flash, it turns from moonlit to sunlit, and the pebbly dirt smoothes to bleached, cracked concrete. The shot lingers three or four beats…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7944 words)

A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer

We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! On a brisk December day in…
AUTHOR:Rex Weiner
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3582 words)

Dallas, Part 2: Up Close

Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? Dallas is a jewel, Dallas is a beautiful sight. And Dallas is a jungle, but Dallas gives a beautiful light. —Jimmie Dale Gilmore, from the song…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7232 words)

Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away

I don't remember everything about meeting Maurice ... probably we simply faced one another in the middle of the white coral road, hesitating to speak, staring at each other. We were the only boys…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6846 words)
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A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer

On a brisk December day in 1972, the SS Statendam left New York Harbor with an extraordinary passenger list. Theoretical physicists, science fiction writers, a handful of paying passengers, a…
AUTHOR:Rex Weiner
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3560 words)

The Witch and the Poet: Part 3

The story so far: the author visits a fortune-teller whose prediction that she will become a poet changes the course of her destiny. In the U.S. there are two groups concerned with the conduct of…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2142 words)
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