“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
Krista Stevens
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Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
“I love dramatic stories too, but I think they tend to mislead us about how change happens.”
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A Death at Walmart
“’If you’re not throwing up or passing out, they want you to stay,’ one of Janikka’s former co-workers told me, requesting anonymity.”
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The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty
“‘If you didn’t do it, I would still be there.’ His voice was weak with emotion.”
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Joni Mitchell’s Best Album Is Turning Fifty. It’s Not Blue
“She was done playing the starry-eyed hippie. She was tired of singing dirges.”
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A Knife Forged in Fire
“All of human history would thereby be embodied in a single work of art.”
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The Scientist Using Bugs to Help Solve Murders
“Magni’s first idea was to test Di Muro’s clothes for the presence of plankton to partially verify his alibi.”
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The Favourite Patient
“But when it comes to my doctors, not only do I want them to like me—I want them to like me the most. I want to be the favourite patient.”
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On Beauty and Violence
“In lieu of toys, my closet filled with these tokens of violence: an antler, rodent bones, feathers and wings, and in a small paper bag crimped at the top, a lone cobbled talon curled to a fist.”
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How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith
“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”