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Post-Prozac Nation

Few medicines, in the history of pharmaceuticals, have been greeted with as much exultation as a green-and-white pill containing 20 milligrams of fluoxetine hydrochloride — the chemical we know as…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5115 words)

Justice for Ralph Ellison

One of the greatest of all American books, Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” was published by Random House sixty years ago, on April 14, 1952, and became an immediate sensation. Almost everyone who…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

Robert Caro Fourth Volume - The Big Book, by Chris Jones

Published in the May 2012 issue of Esquire, on sale soon I. THE FISK BUILDING On the twenty-second floor of the Fisk Building in New York — an elegant brick giant built in 1921, stretching an…
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1404 words)

Return to ‘Tallahassee’

Press play above to hear an audio interview with John DarnielleA few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, singer-songwriter John Darnielle flew from Des Moines, Iowa, to Rochester, N.Y., to record an album…
AUTHOR:Zach Baron
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1799 words)

Man of the Century

Discussed: The Uses of Leni Riefenstahl, The Worlds Best Fake ID, Schubert, Novels Buried in the Garden, Violins and Trumpets, Ella Fitzgerald, Clichd Exiles, Trauma as Narrative I first…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3542 words)
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