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Demanding Pleasures
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On the art of observation

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Note To Self
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The lyric essay’s convenient fictions

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What Happened in Vegas
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Copyright (c) 2012 by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company. From The Lifespan of a Fact, by writer John D’Agata and…

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Figures of Speech
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. —Gustave Flaubert Notebook departs this month from the table of contents, its purpose served and its license expired after…

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Writers afoot
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To the point
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Truths only essays can tell

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Editor’s study
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Editor’s easy chair
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