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"An attorney pieces together a life cut short."

'The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients' / by Burke M. Butler / Texas Observer & The Marshall Project / March 7, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"Neurologist Laura Boylan suffered from tremors and loss of balance that she attributed to a cyst in her brain. Why didn’t her doctors believe her?"

'In Men, It's Parkinson's. In Women, It's Hysteria' / by David Armstrong / ProPublica / Aug. 23, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance."

'The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can't Believe It Came To This' / by Lauren Smiley / The Atlantic / Nov. 1, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

'LAUREN SMILEY is a writer based in California. Her work has appeared in Wired, San Francisco magazine, and The California Sunday Magazine.'

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"Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics."

'The Social Life of Genes' / by David Dobbs / Pacific Standard / Sept. 3, 2013 [updated 2017] / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

'David Dobbs is the author of My Mother's Lover, an Atavist story that became a Top 20 Kindle and a No. 1 best-selling Kindle Single. His Pacific Standard cover story, "The Social Life of Genes," won the 2014 AAAS Kavli prize for magazine writing.'

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"One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers."

'Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?' / by Lisa Song, Patrick Michels & Al Shaw / ProPublica & Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting / Aug. 6, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"The mystery started with a stolen safe combination and an inside job. It led to a car theft, the creation of a fake Stanford Axe and a midnight rendezvous with a newspaper photographer. Student pilots took to the skies. Mice were let loose in a Stanford women's dorm. The Oakland Tribune credited a commando team known as 'The Fearsome Five' for carrying out the mission."

'The never-before-told story of the 1960 Cal-Stanford axe heist' / by Kyle Bonagura / ESPN / Nov. 20, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"With almost $1 billion in funding and ambitions to replace petroleum-based cars with a network of cheap electrics, Shai Agassi’s Better Place was remarkable even by the standards of world-changing startups. So was its epic failure. A 21st-century cautionary tale."

'A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World' / by Max Chafkin / Fast Company / April 7, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

'Max Chafkin is a contributing writer with Fast Company, and the author of Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple. His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 and The Best Business Writing 2012'

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"Soccer, fire and a game at the world's crossroads."

'The Istanbul Derby' / by Spencer Hall / SB Nation / April 28, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"When the patriarch of the hugely popular fast-food chain killed his mother and sister, then himself, he left behind a family wrestling with fate—and each other."

'The Zankou Chicken Murders' / by Mark Arax / Los Angeles Magazine / April 1, 2008 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

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"To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200."

'The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona' / by Bruce Berger / A Desert Harvest / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / March 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli

'Bruce Berger grew up in suburban Chicago. A poet and nonfiction writer, he is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture in desert settings. The first of these, The Telling Distance, won the 1990 Western States Book Award and the 1991 Colorado Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Sierra, Orion Magazine, and Gramophone; his poems have appeared in Poetry, Barron’s, and various literary reviews in the United States, Scotland, and India, and have been collected in Facing the Music.

Excerpted to Longreads from A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays by Bruce Berger. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 1990, 1994, 2004, 2019 by Bruce Berger. All rights reserved.'

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