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December 17, 2012

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Best of 2012: Essays

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American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic

A writer considers America as he dies.

Earl Shorris Harper's

In Which We Don't Do Coke in the Bathroom of the Restaurant

On waiting tables.

Jackie Kruszewski This Recording 10min

Confessions of an Ex-Mormon

A personal history of “America’s most misunderstood religion.”

Walter Kirn The New Republic 25min

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

Guns, race, and childhood in Mississippi.

Kiese Laymon Cold Drank 20min

10 Timeframes

On the shifting nature of time.

Paul Ford Contents 10min

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