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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 273
TRACK 1
CHINA’S INSTANT
CITIES
by Peter Hessler, National Geographic, June
2007
TRACK 2
THE SHORT REIGN OF
FRED ALLEN
by Dennis Drabelle, The American Scholar, Summer 2007
THE DETECTIVE
NOVELIST
(a poem) by David Starkey, The Antioch Review, Summer 2007
HEMINGWAY’S CUBA,
CUBA’S HEMINGWAY
by Valerie Hemingway, Smithsonian, August 2007
FORBIDDEN FARE
by Orhan Pamuk, The New Yorker, July 9 & 16, 2007
TRACK 3
BALTO
(fiction) by T. C. Boyle, The Paris Review, Winter 2006
TRACK 4
THE AMATEUR FUTURE
OF SPACE TRAVEL
by Jack Hitt, The New York Times Magazine,
July 1, 2007
CURRENT THINKING
by Heather Rogers, The New York Times Magazine, June 3, 2007
MELTING A CAR
by Brian Doyle, Orion, July/August 2007
TRACK 5
REACHING THE HIGH
NOTES
by Katrine Ames, Newsweek, July 16, 2007
THE INVENTION OF
THE SAXOPHONE
(a poem) by Billy Collins, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Spring/Summer 2007
COLTRANE’S SOUND
(an essay) by Keith Raether, The Southern Review, Summer 2007
MICK ON THE MAKE:
NOTES ON AN UNUSUAL NAME
(an essay) by Dinty W. Moore,
The Southern Review, Summer 2007
TRACK 6
JEFFREY SACHS’S
$200 BILLION DREAM
by Nina Munk, Vanity Fair, July 2007
SERVANT,
BIRTHRIGHT
(a poem) by Pattiann Rogers, Poetry, January 2004
TRACK 7
DUNN & SONS
(fiction) by Brendan Mathews, The Virginia Quarterly Review,
Summer 2007
FREE TO READ
by Sheila Kohler, Poets & Writers, July/August 2007
LITERATURE CAN
SAVE THE WORLD…IF WE LET IT!
by Marita Golden, Creative Nonfiction, No. 31, 2007
THE SIX STAGES OF
E-MAIL
by Nora Ephron, The New York Times, July 1, 2007
TRACK 8
BARN CLEANING by
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, July 3, 2007
MEET THE
FLINTSTONES
by Steven Rinella, Outside, August 2007
WHERE EAGLES SWIM
by Annie Prevost, Natural History, May 2007
A LADY BY ANY
STANDARD: LADY BIRD JOHNSON 1912-2007
by Michael Beschloss,
Newsweek, July 23, 2007
A STATE OF
CONFUSION
by Jason Headley, The Oxford American, Issue 57, 2007