“‘If you didn’t do it, I would still be there.’ His voice was weak with emotion.”
Krista Stevens
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Joni Mitchell’s Best Album Is Turning Fifty. It’s Not Blue
“She was done playing the starry-eyed hippie. She was tired of singing dirges.”
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A Knife Forged in Fire
“All of human history would thereby be embodied in a single work of art.”
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The Scientist Using Bugs to Help Solve Murders
“Magni’s first idea was to test Di Muro’s clothes for the presence of plankton to partially verify his alibi.”
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The Favourite Patient
“But when it comes to my doctors, not only do I want them to like me—I want them to like me the most. I want to be the favourite patient.”
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On Beauty and Violence
“In lieu of toys, my closet filled with these tokens of violence: an antler, rodent bones, feathers and wings, and in a small paper bag crimped at the top, a lone cobbled talon curled to a fist.”
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How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith
“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”
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This Is What Happens to All the Stuff You Don’t Want
“And deep within that system, in a processing facility in the Lehigh Valley, a guy named Michael has to sniff the sweatpants.”
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My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas
“They’d sit in the front cab of a raggedy Ford listening to a Tina Turner tape. I’d sit in the back, next to burnt orange pine needles, a few broken lawnmowers, and all forms of rust.”
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The Quiet Part Loud
“You could spend a lot of time with Seth and never know he struggles to hear; that his left ear hears at about 30 percent below the average range and his right one, 95 percent below.”