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From “Water Images of The New Yorker,” by Charles Bernstein. Bernstein’s study was distributed to participants at a poetry seminar held in June at the Kootenay School of Writing in…

Why was Flight 655 shot down?

by David R. (David Richard) Carlson,

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

by Patrick Nagatani,

The heavy hand of the NRA

by James H. Warner,

Journalism in our time

by Bill Walter,

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Art by Gene Elder,

Mapping the real geography

by Barry Lopez,

On the wing

by Kjell Bloch Sandved,

Dr. Ordinary

by Padgett Powell,

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Why there are financial planners

Working-Class Heroes No More

Unemployment strategies

This is your life

When is a flag desecrated?

The general’s wife

Rushdie’s words, under guard

G-men with attitude

Ceausescu

Readings

Mr. Wujec goes to Warsaw

Readings

Barbara Walters’s theater of revenge

Writer’s grudge

My white father

Relax, breathe, visualize, dump her

(Very) Fast Food

Rosemary Jamison’s truck

Vulgar recipes

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Funk and fibers

Wet Verse at The New Yorker

Why was Flight 655 shot down?

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

The heavy hand of the NRA

Journalism in our time

Readings

Mapping the real geography

On the wing

Dr. Ordinary

December 1989

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