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• ISBN: 9780393330038
• ISBN: 0393330036
• Physical Description: xviii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, ©2007.

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The cipher in room 214 : who was Mary Anderson and why did she die? / Carol Smith -- Badlands : portrait of a competitive eater / John O'Connor -- 'Mbriago / Louise DeSalvo -- Chores / Debra Marquart -- Cold autumn / waiterrant.net -- Consumption / Sunshine O'Donnell -- The pain scale / Eula Biss -- Full gospel / J.D. Schraffenberger -- The truth about cats and dogs / Rebecca Skloot -- Double take / opionistas.com -- Trapeze lessons / Marie Carter -- Notes on Frey / Daniel Nester -- Miles to go before we sleep / Jeff Gordinier -- Job no. 51-- executive director and job no. 52-- psychic medium / oliverdavies.blogspot.com -- Pimp / Olivia Chia-Lin Lee -- The woot files / Monica Hsiung Wojcik -- Sleepy head / hotcoffeegirl.squarespace.com -- The answer that increasingly appeals / Robin Black -- North Pole, South Pole, the sea of carcinoma / Dev Hathaway -- Thirteen more ways of looking at a blackbird / Dorie Bargmann -- What is the future of diagnostic medicine? / Michael Rosenwald -- Like a complete unknown / miminewyork.blogspot.com -- Mother's touch / Alexis Wiggins -- 66 signs that the former student who invited you to dinner is trying to seduce you / Lori Soderlind -- Wild flavor / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- Notes on the space we take / Bonnie J. Rough -- Tell me again who are you? / Heather Sellers.

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