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This Is Running for Your Life: Essays
Michelle Orange on the art of the personal essay, navigating cultural overload, and the distance that separates two human heads
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Six Questions — February 20, 2013, 9:00 am
Michelle Orange on the art of the personal essay, navigating cultural overload, and the distance that separates two human heads
Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
