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The Botany of Desire The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book) Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
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Curious Gorge (3rd Edition) Curious Gorge (3rd Edition)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Jill Owens: IMG Matt Bell: The Powells.com Interview
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Interviews | May 29, 2013

Matt Bell Matt Bell: I didn't know what the bear was or what the bear was doing or what the bear meant. I knew the bear was this thing that I could send the characters to interact with. Then I had this other thing in the lake that I didn't know what to do with and how to have them interact with.

As a writer, to have that kind of mystery in your own story is so good. I'm reading Robert Boswell's book of essays on fiction right now, The Half-Known World. He's always talking about the fact that to not know your own story fully is generative. The first time I read that I was like, Yeah, absolutely. This is how I work. To hide the world you're creating from yourself while you're creating it, it's a weird balance, but it seems necessary, at least for me. If I know it too early, I just lose all that, and it becomes very flat and very stale... Continue

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
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Yvette van Boven: IMG My Summer Dinner, Part Two: Savory Cake
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Guests | Today, 10:00am

What to serve with cocktails when your guests have arrived?

It's most convenient to have something ready, so you don't have to worry with fiddly crackers and spreads and all that stuff. BUT, most importantly, it has to be easy. You don't want to spend too much time in the kitchen in the summer.

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Lisa Zeidner: IMG You Can Say Bomb on an Airplane
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Original Essays | May 28, 2013

It's easy to make people cry. Bald chemo kid in a hospital bed, mangy dog in the pound, soldier on the tarmac home from war greeting his family -- who doesn't get teary-eyed? I routinely cry at phone commercials in which people call their mothers.

But it's much more difficult to make people laugh, which is precisely why I so admire comedy.

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Lauren Kessler: IMG The Art of the Guinea Pig
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Original Essays | May 31, 2013

When did I first realize what I had gotten myself into?

Was it that morning in the 102-degree Bikram studio when, slick with sweat, leaving little puddles on my mat as I grunted through a series of yoga poses, I face-planted during a strenuous downward dog sequence and gave myself a bloody nose?

Maybe it was the evening of the 12th day of my detox and fasting regimen when I made chicken parmesan and spaghettini for my family and then sat down to a sludgy gray rice protein shake.

Or it could have been that afternoon at the Bowerman Sports Clinic... Continue

Counterclockwise Counterclockwise: My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-Aging
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Peter J. Steinberger: IMG Powell's Q&A: Peter J. Steinberger
| 0 comments By Peter J. Steinberger

Q&A | May 27, 2013

What's the strangest or most interesting job you've ever had?
The most interesting job is the one I've had now for 36 years: being a teacher/scholar at Reed College. Many people who know something about Reed think of it as one of the better liberal arts colleges in the country. But many people who know Reed intimately, i.e., from the inside, think of it rather differently. For them, Reed is a kind of miracle. There's really nothing quite like it. I've been able to spend virtually my entire professional life with a student body composed primarily of young people who are not only pretty smart but also don't want class to end, get angry if there's not enough reading or if they find the reading too easy, think scholarship is about the coolest thing in the world, and are concerned less about doing stuff than about figuring stuff out. For a pointy-headed intellectual like me, this is... Continue

The Problem with God The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
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