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“Orchid Fever”
by Susan Orlean
originally published in The New Yorker, January 23, 1995.
“Tales of the Tyrant”
by Mark Bowden
originally published in The Atlantic, May 2002.
“The Man Who Never Was”
by Mike Sager
originally published in Esquire, May 2009.
“America is a Bull”
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
originally published in Esquire, January 1999.
“What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?”
by Richard Ben Cramer
originally published in Esquire, June 1986.
“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”
by Gay Talese
originally published in Esquire, April 1966.
“The American Man at Age Ten”
by Susan Orlean
originally published in Esquire, December 1992.
“How Many Ed Rendells Are There?”
by Lisa DePaulo
originally published in Philadelphia, April 1994.
“American Ground”
by William Langewiesche
originally published in The Atlantic, July 2002.
“Savior vs. Savior”
by Devin Friedman
originally published in GQ, February 2010.
“The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy”
by Michael Paterniti
originally published in Esquire, July 2000.
“Boom”
by Sean Flynn
originally published in GQ, July 2010.
“Consider the Lobster”
by David Foster Wallace
originally published in Gourmet, August 2004.
“Moby Duck”
by Donovan Hohn
originally published in Harper’s, January 2007.
“Shipping Out”
by David Foster Wallace
originally published in Harper’s, January 1996.
“Upon This Rock”
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
originally published in GQ, February 2004.
“Driving Mr. Albert”
by Michael Paterniti
originally published in Harper’s, October 1997.
“The Lost Boys of Sudan”
by Sara Corbett
originally published in The New York Times Magazine, April 2001.
“The Vanishing Ice Sheets”
by Ben Wallace-Wells
originally published in Rolling Stone, September 2010.
by Naomi Klein
originally published in The Guardian, June 2010.
“Underworld”
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
originally published in GQ, April 2004.
“The Cost Conundrum”
by Atul Gawande
originally published in The New Yorker, June 1, 2009.
“Lucky Jim”
by Elizabeth Gilbert
originally published in GQ, May 2002.
“Being Max Cleland”
by Charles Bowden
originally published in Esquire, August 1999.
“The Rapist Says He’s Sorry”
by Tom Junod
originally published in GQ, December 1995.