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Heaven Is a Playlist, Track 3: Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car"
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Death to free throws
A fix for basketball, plus my weekly shareables: A real-life Ted Lasso, turmoil at CNN, and the mystery of Meg White
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Simplify, simplify
Getting to the essence, plus my weekly shareables: Tina Turner, Janelle Monaé, and a stunning Memorial Day story
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A very quick fix
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Bridges or moats
Connection v. isolation, plus my weekly shareables: A football mourning, Lucinda returns, and Picasso's secret dog
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It's a dog's, dog's, dog's world
Some dog show/dog book updates, plus my weekly shareables: Pulitzer connections, a ghostwriter's notes, and Connies everywhere
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The songs I loved to hate
A life of earworms, plus my weekly shareables: Tom Hanks, Springsteen, and the Denver airport hellscape
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The middle-aged grunt
Sounds of the 50s and 60s, plus my weekly shareables: the HOME TOWN stars, David Grann's newest, and John Mulaney returns
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The native returns
A terror from my reading past, plus my weekly shareables: Twitter brain, magic mushrooms, and the rat-hunting dogs of NYC
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The magazines that made me
My youth in glossies, plus my weekly shareables: A tiny dog, a bumbling detective, and MURMUR at 40
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