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A First-Hand Dispatch from the Land of the Working Poor
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A Dispatch from the Hometown of Rep. Steven King, the Widely Condemned Congressman
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A Memoir Filled with Marginalization, Humiliation, and Criminalization
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A Family Struggles with Poverty, Jim Crow — and the War on Drugs
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The Author of ‘The Kiss’ Weaves a Less Creepy, but Still Fascinating Family Story
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A Close Look at a Man Who is Temperamentally Unsuited to His Job
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A Man Booker Prize Shortlist Novel Wrestles with the Agonies of Slavery
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Exploring the Nearly Law-Free World of ‘Misdemeanorland’
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These Tiny Babies Would Have Died without a Pseudo-Doctor’s Boardwalk Theatrics
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The Author’s Hometown of Roanoke, Va., on the Edge of Appalachia, is Near Ground Zero
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God and an Air of Menace are in Kwon’s Details
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