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Topic: Book excerpts (page 4)

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When is a mother good enough?

Sharon Lamb
"The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out" by William Dameron (Sharona Jacobs/Little A)

It took me 25 years to come out

William Dameron
John Updike; John Irving; Norman Mailer; Tom Wolfe (AP/Getty/Salon)

Literary feuds for the ages

Graham Tarrant
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My first BDSM class, after 5 dry years

Olive Persimmon
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"My darling boy, my moon and stars"

Chris Gabbard
The last eight survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force plane crash in the Andes in South America, huddle together in the craft's fuselage on their final night before rescue on Dec. 22, 1972. (AP Photo)

Returning to the scene of the crash

Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano
"The Socialist Manifesto" by Bhaskar Sunkara; An 11-panel mural depicting Maine's labor history. (Basic Books/AP/Clarke Canfield)

When Americans were communists

Bhaskar Sunkara
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Fast cars and guitars with women's names

Megan Volpert
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NSFW: A queen's gift for her king

Wednesday Black
A double-slit interference of the sunlight passing through two slits ~1 cm long and ~0.5 mm apart. (Wikimedia/Aleksandr Berdnikov)

How quantum theory clashes with reality

George Greenstein
"Labyrinth" (Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Using "Labyrinth" to talk about sex

Stella Harris
Sigmund Freud (AP/The MIT Press Reader/Salon)

Mexico tried to save Freud from Nazis

Rubén Gallo
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Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck, of Fredricksburg, Va., right, and Sophia Elwood, 7, the daughter of Peck's fiancee, place an American flag on one of the names inscribed at the south reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, July 4, 2014. (AP/Tina Fineberg)

The story of my new arms

John Peck, Dava Guerin, Terry Bivens
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (Bryanston Distributing Company)

"Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and Nixon

Joseph Lanza
Cult leader Charles Manson, who is linked to the Sharon Tate murders, is seen 1969. (AP Photo)

The apocalypse of 1969

Rob Kirkpatrick
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Sensual isn't the same as sexual

Gia Lynne
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Metaphysics hides in quantum mechanics

George Greenstein
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Bad dates on the way to finding love

Tracy Strauss
"The Big Bang Theory" (Monty Brinton/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

"The Big Bang Theory" and real science

Mark Brake
Bob Dylan plays the harmonica and acoustic guitar in March 1963 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Recording Bob Dylan, before he was Dylan

Leif Pettersen
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Yelp is turning customers into managers

Joshua Sperber
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NSFW: Top bidder in the date auction

R.G. Emanuelle
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A C-section saved my life, and my baby’s

Elizabeth Noll
A Christie's employee holds a sketch of David Hockney's painting Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, painted in 1969 displayed in the background, at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP/Frank Augstein)

How art lost its center

Jay David Bolter
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