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Patrick Wensink

Patrick Wensink is the author of five books. His most recent novel, “Fake Fruit Factory,” was named one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. He is a contributor to New York Times, Esquire, Oxford American, Salon and others. His first children’s book, “Go Go Gorillas,” will be published in summer 2017 by Harper/Collins.
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Am I raising a Donald Trump? My kid wants to Make Playtime Great Again

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Donald Trump; Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Mike Segar/Getty/Justin Sullivan/Photo montage by Salon)

Town Hall doomsday scenarios: 8 epic meltdowns that could totally happen at tonight’s debate

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Nirvana

Photos from the Kurt Cobain crime scene that could be high art

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The 7 best songs about pizza ever recorded

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My Morning Jacket (AP/Vince Bucci)

7 Christmas songs that are unintentionally depressing

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Johnny Cash (AP)

The 5 kinds of music you can listen to with your kids

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Pots of cannabis

My neighbor, the wannabe drug lord

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T-Model Ford playing at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville, VA on March 1, 2010 (Wikimedia Commons)

When bluesman T-Model Ford died, so did the dirty blues

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Wilson Pickett plays at the Acura stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday, May 4, 2001, in New Orleans. (AP/Douglas Mason)

My pilgrimage to Wilson Pickett’s grave

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Gun nuts’ strangest subculture: Book clubs

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(By Danny Norton from Portland, OR, United States (Breeders Kim Deal), Wikimedia Commons)

The weirdest album to ever go platinum

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My Amazon bestseller made me nothing

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