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If you haven’t yet read the Time exposé of the American health-care industry, you’re missing out.
It’s easy to see that something’s wrong with the way we do health care in the United States, but hard to understand just how deep the dysfunction goes.
...moreCheryl Strayed talks with Time about Wild, Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things, how the Pacific Crest Trail has changed since 1995, current projects, and more.
“My intent was—stories, poems, they have been my guiding lights. I thought, why not give others what I’ve received from other literary forms?
...moreRumpus contributor Jonathan Ames recently got interviewed by a little magazine called Time.
Clearly this upstart Time rag is hopping on the Rumpus’ pro-Ames bandwagon, but we won’t begrudge them. How can you NOT want to learn more about a writer who’s been compared to everyone from Norman Mailer to David Sedaris?
...moreA review from TNR: “Think about it: when we want to know when it is time to eat, or to go to bed, or to plan a vacation, we look at watches and clocks and calendars… But consider nature for a moment: without a Rolex or even a Swatch, the monarch butterfly knows to migrate from North America to Central America at precisely the same time each year.” …read more
