“The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?”
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Humans Killed Millions of Vultures. Now People Are Paying the Price.
“As vultures vanished, dogs multiplied, and rabies spread. Humans are living with the consequences.”
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Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.
“Twenty years after A Million Little Pieces became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.”
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How to Exclaim!
The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.”
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Catch and Release
“Not everyone gets to publish their first book alongside their mentor.”
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Stet: On Cutting—but Keeping—Everything
“I prefer to keep my darlings on ice.”
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The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
“Altogether, 17,517,490 personnel records—the only comprehensive proof of service for all these Americans—had been wiped out of existence.”
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The $30 Million Lottery Scam
“But he did let slip that he’d kept his lottery charts and spreadsheets—and that he still believed his system worked.”
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The Biggest Loser
“He built an empire of men addicted to watching him lose enormous sums of money. In Las Vegas, I figured out why we can’t look away.”
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Rappers Used to Sell the Booze. Now They Own It.
“E-40 and Ja Rule got real about taking control of the liquor industry’s love affair with hip-hop.”
