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Forced Feeding
… Paul had married my mother a few years after my father died, and over their time together he behaved in ways that … December, Melville House released The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture , a document that had been made … [sic] with head lower than torso.” 2 But detainees also drank Ensure. Lots of it. They almost certainly drank …
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I Will End the Line of My Ancestors
… In California, the drought whispers to the water: Come back. The San Andreas Fault creases like the fate  line … drinking coffee,  opening her laptop and searching the same websites           for a job. I imagine her boiling sweet … Those days, my mother said she wanted           to die. The words always under her breath           but …
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Like a Novel
… eye. It was what Sedaris wrote: “It might surprise you how completely enjoyable this book is, as rich and beautifully … screenwriter Ed Burns, in an episode of The Wire about falsified you-are-there newspaper stories, derides as “the … of six books, including The Family , Sweet Heaven When I Die , and Radiant Truths , forthcoming in 2014. blurb book …
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Starting Over
… Starting Over . These nine spare stories, each one as compressed as a breath, show a steady, lifelong devotion to … time. She knew each one for who it was, though they had died years ago or hadn’t been seen for ages. Sometimes they … of the Heart—​The Elizabeth Spencer Story ), which also reveals that in 1957 The Voice at the Back Door was due …
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Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man
… for a week of food—two weeks if a Christian Youth Group comes in and adopts half the strays. Sometimes she dreams of … to save the unsaved? Lloyd Driggers doesn’t offer testimonials. No, he just hands out food. That’s not enough!” The … story in the weekly Forty-Five Platter, and studied up on the molecular structure of tree sap. He gazed at …
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E-Book Apps: You’re Doing It Wrong
… extras with the book. They’d provide you with an individual computer program to be installed and run just to read a … them? “iTunes,” you might call it?) Or imagine that some websites could only be accessed by downloading, installing, … ePub file isn’t particularly challenging (it’s basically a website, each chapter its own web page), with your average …
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