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In the opening pages of Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg says it's "something of a sacrilege" to speak of mental illness as anything besides the "chemical brain disease that it...

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Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander will read at the swearing in of President-elect Barack Obama next month. According to government officials, Alexander will be the fourth poet in history to read...

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Here's one the percolated right to the top of our Best of 2008 list: State by State, beautifully bound as something approximating a 1950's textbook, features 50 personal essays...

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