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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 264
TRACK 1
GOING, GOING, GONE
by Floyd Skloot, Creative Nonfiction, No. 27, 2005
AN
OSCAR-WINNING PERFORMANCE?
by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, October 31, 2005
THE
SLUMP BUSTER
(fiction) by Ron Carlson, The Southern Review, Autumn 2005
TRACK 2
THE
BEAUTIFUL QUICKNESS OF A STREET BOY
(a poem) by Yusef Komunyakaa, The New York
Times, December 31, 2005
THE
MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL
(fiction) by Penelope Lively, The Missouri Review, Fall 2005
TRACK 3
THE
MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL
(concluded)
THE
GREAT BLACK HOPE
by Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, January 12, 2006
TRACK 4
YORICK
by Tatyana Tolstaya, The New Yorker, December 26, 2005 & January 2, 2006
IN
SEARCH OF THE ROOTS OF GENIUS
by Edward Rothstein, Smithsonian, February 2006
BIRGIT NILSSON, SOPRANO LEGEND WHO TAMED WAGNER, DIES AT 87
by Bernard Holland,
The New York Times, January 12, 2006
TRACK 5
HOGS
WILD
by Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, December 12, 2005
TRACK 6
HOGS
WILD
(concluded)
FOURTEENER 279
(a poem) by Douglas Woody Woodsum, The Massachusetts Review, Winter
2005-2006
FOURTEEN FEET OF WATER IN MY HOUSE
(fiction) by Allan Gurganus, Harper’s Magazine, January 2006
RORY
COMES HOME
by Frank McCourt, Life, January 13, 2006
TRACK 7
BILINGUAL BY BREAKFAST
by Leigh Ann Henion, Smithsonian, February 2006
VENEZUELA STEERS A NEW COURSE
by Katherine Ellison, Smithsonian, January 2006
HOUSE OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
by Nicholas Gage, The New York Times Magazine, January 15, 2006
THE
LIEUTENANT
by Brian Doyle, The American Scholar, Winter 2006
AN
AMERICAN WOMAN: WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 1950-2006
by Gail Collins, The New York Times,
January 31, 2006
TRACK 8
COOKING FOR EGGHEADS
by Patricia Gadsby, Discover, February 2006
THE
LOST STRUDEL
by Nora Ephron, The New York Times, December 28, 2005
LIVING ON THIN ICE
by Gretel Ehrlich, National Geographic, January 2006