“You know how many times of the day I answer questions about poop?” an absolutely jacked professional eater asks me. “Every single interview.”
Krista Stevens
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What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me
“When music made collaboratively with other musicians goes right, I feel a budding, rising warmth and comfort. Is this my mother smiling on me?”
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Mount Fear Diary
“Speaking to the dead can, for a short while, seem to place us outside the laws of nature—outside the rules governing time and space.”
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The Greatest Scam Ever Written
“They were believers—in astrology, in psychics, in fortune telling—who longed for transformation, salvation, fortune.”
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We Are All Animals at Night
“’We know where she works,’ their faces said, but it felt less like a judgement and more like an acknowledgement.”
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How To Chop An Onion
“If fire and water and salt could transform something pungent, bloody, uncontained into one of savor and energy, what else could be transformed?”
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The Vanishing Family
“This is genetic, she thought. This is inherited. And then, finally: We all might have it.”
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Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
“At sixty-eight years old, the photographer returns time and again to this sliver of eastern Arkansas to try to secure an image of the bird.”
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Black Hole Paradox
“I was…a specter buried in the back rooms of after-hours clubs and gambling dens, a haint hidden at the table of steak joints and shake dance spots.”
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Excerpt From American Prometheus
“Into this world of promise was born J. Robert Oppenheimer, on April 22, 1904. He came from a family of first- and second-generation German immigrants striving to be American.”