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JANUARY 2007
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 269
TRACK 1
JANUARY IN PARIS (a poem) by
Billy Collins, Poetry, January 2006
HIMMELEN
(fiction) by Heidi Shayla, The Georgia Review, Spring 2006
BOOK LOVERS SEEK LOVERS, BUTTERED OR PLAIN
by Sarah Lyall, The New York Times,
November 21, 2006
TRACK 2
THE GREAT FUGUE
(a poem) by John Balaban, TriQuarterly, Issue 125, 2006
WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A STUDENT
by Paul Tough, The New York Times Magazine, November 26, 2006
TRACK 3
WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A STUDENT
by Paul Tough (concluded)
MOVING HOUSE
by Helen Garner, Brick, Summer 2006
MY DAYS ARE NUMBERED
by Rick Moranis, The New York Times, November 22, 2006
RAG TIME
by Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, September 25, 2006
TRACK 4
STYRON VISIBLE: NAMING THE EVILS THAT HUMANS DO
by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times,
November 3, 2006
THE HEROES, THE HEALING
by Neil Shea, National Geographic, December 2006
TRACK 5
THE LAST CHINESE CHEF
(fiction) by Nicole Mones,
Gourmet, August 2006
FROM A LONG TRADITION, SMALL SIPS QUICKLY BREWED
by Harris Salat, The New York Times,
September 13, 2006
PLANTING GARLIC
(a poem) by Paddy Bushe, The Sewanee Review, Summer 2006
THE SIXTH SENSE
by Gary Shteyngart, The New York Times, October 9, 2005
HIGH GROUND
by Roger Swain, Horticulture, October/November 2006
TRACK 6
CRICKET, ANYONE?
by Simon Worrall, Smithsonian, October 2006
WINNING MISS MUFFET’S HEART
by Rebecca Rupp, Natural History, October 2006
THE POLLUTION WITHIN
by David Ewing Duncan, National Geographic, October 2006
TRACK 7
THE SMART AND SWINGING BONOBO and SPEAKING BONOBO
by Paul Raffaele, Smithsonian,
November 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LINNAEUS
by Richard Conniff, Natural History, December 2006/January 2007
TRACK 8
JUNIOR
(an essay) by Marjorie Sandor, Prairie Schooner, Summer 2006
THE BORDER IS WIDE
by Cecilia Balli, Harper’s Magazine, October 2006