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Ploughshares Winter 2023-2024

by Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Stephen Ackerman, Ariana Benson, Mary Lou Buschi, Colin Criss, Nicholas Friedman, Majda Gama, Reginald Gibbons, Sarah Green, Kirun Kapur, Abbie Kiefer, Hilary King, Christopher Kondrich, Mary Dean Lee, Robert Wood Lynn, Amanda Moore, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer, Ananya Kanai Shah, Gordon Mitchell Smith, Lolita Stewart-White, Samn Stockwell, Ryan Vine, Jesse Wallis, Logan Klutse, J Lazar, Mengyin Lin, Mimi Dixon, Carol Keeley, Jesse Lee Kercheval, J.D. Mathes, Sarah Twombly, Kenneth Calhoun, Mary Granfield, Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Andrew Porter, Ian Stansel, Annie Weatherwax ...

The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited ... Read more

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The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited
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Raw-Vitalize

The Easy, 21-Day Raw Food Recharge

by Mimi Kirk, Mia Kirk White ...

A day-by-day guide to clean, raw eatingCatch the wave of health and good living with this easy and delicious 21-day raw food plan. Mimi Kirk and her daughter, Mia Kirk White, developed the plan when they decided to team up and remind themselves of the benefits of eating all raw, all the time.They needed a plan that would work with their busy schedules, with meals that would fit into a set menu, ... Read more

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A day-by-day guide to clean, raw eatingCatch the wave of health and good living with this easy and delicious 21-day raw food plan. Mimi Kirk and her daughter, Mia Kirk White, developed the plan when they decided to team up and remind themselves of the benefits of eating all raw, all the time.They needed a plan that would work with their busy schedules, with meals that would fit into a set menu,
... Read more
Very Special Episodes

Televising Industrial and Social Change

by Jonathan Cohn, Jennifer Porst, Reba Wissner, Philip Scepanski, Barbara Selznick, David Scott Diffrient, Lindsay Giggey, Erin Copple Smith, Ron Becker0, Erin Giannini1, Mimi White2, Brett Mills3, Apryl Alexander4, Christine Becker5, Jorie Lagerwey6, Taylor Nygaard7 ...

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era ... Read more

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Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era
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Power Failure

The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron

by Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins ...

Narrated by Karen White ...

Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.”Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode…Power Failure* ... Read more

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*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.”Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode…Power Failure*
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Circle of Greed

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to ItsKnees

by Patrick Dillon ...

Narrated by Erik Davies ...

Unabridged

20 hours 11 min

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt ... Read more

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Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt
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Chasing Goldman Sachs

How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down…and Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again

by Suzanne McGee ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

13 hours 58 min

How did Wall Street become a self-serving and ultimately destructive profit machine that imploded? Wall Street's real job is to be our "financial utility"—good financial plumbers that funnel capital to companies so the economy can expand and create jobs and also provide the means for individual investors to build portfolios that will increase personal wealth.But Wall Street went haywire and became ... Read more

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How did Wall Street become a self-serving and ultimately destructive profit machine that imploded? Wall Street's real job is to be our "financial utility"—good financial plumbers that funnel capital to companies so the economy can expand and create jobs and also provide the means for individual investors to build portfolios that will increase personal wealth.But Wall Street went haywire and became
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Our Numbered Days

by Neil Hilborn ...

"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these ... Read more

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"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these
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The Best American Essays 2023

by Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan ...

Series series Best American
In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship ... Read more

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In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship
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Counting Descent

by Clint Smith ...

From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, ... Read more

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From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian,
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The Best of Brevity

Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

by Zoë Bossiere, Dinty W. Moore ...

How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal ... Read more

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How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Work from 1970 to the Present

Edited by Lex Williford, Michael Martone ...

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection ... Read more

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From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection
... Read more
Together in a Sudden Strangeness

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

Edited by Alice Quinn ...

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, ... Read more

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In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory,
... Read more

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