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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 266
TRACK 1
LA
CONCHITA (fiction)
by
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, December 12, 2005
POISON!
by Gary Wockner, Orion, May/June 2006
TRACK 2
HALLEY’S COMET (a poem)
by
Stanley Kunitz, The New Yorker, May 29, 2006
A
SHRINE TO SOUTHERN LITERATURE, SLIGHTLY FRAYED
by Roger Mudd,
The New York Times, May 4, 2006
AN
ODE TO “GONE WITH THE WIND”
by Pearl Cleage, The Oxford American, Spring 2006
TALKING IT UP
by Russell Baker, The New York Review of Books, May 11, 2006
TINE
AFTER TINE
by Douglas Brenner, Gourmet, November 2005
TRACK 3
TAKING THE LEAST OF YOU
by Rebecca Skloot, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2006
OUR
CREATION, OUR CONCERN
by Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 28, 2006
TRACK 4
NOT
YOUR TYPICAL RADICAL
by Sandy Mitchell, National Geographic, May 2006
VOX
POPULI
by Heather Pringle, Discover, June 2006
KEEPING UP WITH THE DEAD: CONFESSIONS OF AN OBIT ADDICT,
by James Atlas,
New York Magazine, March 6, 2006
TRACK 5
ON
THE BAY
by Bill Buford, The New Yorker, April 10, 2006
THE
GENTLEMAN GRAFTER
by Howard Kaplan, Vanity Fair, May 2006
TRACK 6
THE
KILLING FACTORY
by Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone, April 20, 2006
HOW
WE PRACTICED BEING AMERICAN (a poem)
by
Gregory Djanikian, The Georgia Review,
Winter 2005
AN
ARMY OF ONE
by Louise Erdrich, The New York Times, May 29, 2006
TRACK 7
A
CATERPILLAR SANDWICH FEEDS THE GIANT SQUID (fiction)
by Stephanie Dickinson ,
The Ontario Review, Fall/Winter 2005-2006
TRACK 8
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
by David Sedaris, The New Yorker, February 27, 2006
MY
COLD-WAR HANG-UP
by Deborah Dalfonso, Smithsonian, April 2006
WHEN
A SCORPION MEETS A SCORPION
by Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books,
March 23, 2006