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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 270
TRACK 1
A FABLE WITH SLIPS OF WHITE PAPER SPILLING FROM THE POCKETS
(fiction) by Kevin Brockmeier The Oxford American, Issue 55, 2006
MY GUARDIAN ANGEL (a poem) by Richard Tillinghast, Five
Points, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2006
LEARNING TO FLY by Nancy Barber, Raritan, Spring 2006
TRACK 2
GIVE THE KIDS A BREAK by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated,
December 4, 2006
1957 (a memoir) by Maureen McCoy, The Antioch Review, Fall
2006
TRACK 3
OBITUARIES (a poem) by Billy Collins, DoubleTake, Special
Edition 2001
SANS FARINE by Jim Shepard, Harper’s Magazine, November 2006
TRACK 4
SANS FARINE by Jim Shepard (concluded)
THE SHADOW KNOWS by Dava Sobel, Smithsonian, January 2007
TO SKETCH A THIEF by Tom Mueller, The New York Times
Magazine, December 17, 2006
TRACK 5
WHERE I COME FROM A HUSHPUPPY IS NOT A SHOE (a memoir) by
R.T. Smith, Zoetrope: All-Story, Fall 2006
MR. NOODLE by Lawrence Downes, The New York Times, January
9, 2007
HOW SHE ROLLS by Eric Hansen, Outside, January 2007
HOW TO SPEAK A BOOK (an essay) by Richard Powers, The New
York Times Book Review, January 7, 2007
HOW TO OPERATE THE SHOWER CURTAIN by Ian Frazier, The New
Yorker, January 8, 2007
TRACK 6
POLITICAL SATIRIST AND COLUMNIST ART BUCHWALD DIES AT 81 by
Louis Sahagun, Newsday, January 19, 2007
MERCY (fiction) by Pinckney Benedict, The Ontario Review,
Fall/Winter 2006-07
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED by Jim Robbins, Condé Nast
Traveler, December 2006
TRACK 7
EARTHA KITT: THE REIGNING QUEEN OF SONG by Floyd Skloot,
The Oxford American, Issue 54, 2006
WHEN MAESTROS WERE MAESTROS by Janet Frank, The American
Scholar, Winter 2007
THE MEGAFAUNA MAN by Scott Wallace, National Geographic
Adventure, December 2006/January 2007
TRACK 8
THE LEMONS (a poem) by Eugenio Montale, Agni, No. 51, 2000
BLISS (a poem) by Carol Frost, Ploughshares, Winter 1996-97
THE TAXI DRIVER by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times,
November 1, 2006
MY FATHER’S SUITCASE (THE NOBEL LECTURE, 2006) by Orhan
Pamuk, The New Yorker, December 25, 2006 & January 1, 2007
FAITH AND REASON: WRITERS SPEAK by Jeanette Winterson, PEN
World Voices Festival, April 26, 2006