Chapter 16
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Brat Out of Hell

With Doomed, cult hero Chuck Palahniuk brings Madison Spencer up from the depths of Perdition into Purgatory—AKA Los Angeles

…‘Dandruff Desert,’ surveying the ‘Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm,’ and navigating the ‘Swamp of Partial-Birth Abortions,’” wrote Darren Carlaw in the New York Journal of Books.“The easily offended stopped reading…

The Things They Carry

Abraham Verghese discusses doctor’s bags, white coats, and finding the right tools for the job

October 8, 2012 Stanford Medical School professor and The New York Times best-seller list author Abraham Verghese has made his case for the classic but fading image of doctors clad…

The Voice of Curiosity

John Jeremiah Sullivan discusses his approach to interviewing

…essay collection, Pulphead. In “Behind the Cover Story”, an online interview, Sullivan discusses his research for “Where Is Cuba Going?”. The essay that offers a detailed personal glimpse into the…

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