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  1. Editor's Notes
  2. David D. Cooper
  3. p. vii
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0007
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2007 Editors' Prize Winner

  1. The Last Cows
  2. Kathryn Wilder
  3. pp. 1-10
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0011
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Essays and Memoirs

  1. The Love Life of Rube Goldberg
  2. Sam Kean
  3. pp. 11-20
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0015
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  1. My Volvo, My Self: The (Largely Unintended) Existential Implications of Bumper Stickers
  2. Leslie Haynsworth
  3. pp. 21-34
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0019
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  1. Holding On
  2. Judy Labensohn
  3. pp. 35-41
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0023
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  1. Polishing Brass
  2. Cynthia Anne Brandon
  3. pp. 43-53
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0002
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  1. Body Composition
  2. Kelley Evans
  3. pp. 55-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0005
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  1. The Auschwitz Photographer
  2. Gail Griffin
  3. pp. 67-68
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0009
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  1. Mikvah: That Which Will Not Stay Submerged
  2. S. L. Wisenberg
  3. pp. 69-84
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0013
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  1. Selway by Headlamp
  2. Joshua Dolezal
  3. pp. 85-93
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0017
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  1. Cue the Squirt
  2. Sophie Beck
  3. pp. 95-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0021
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  1. The Province of Magic
  2. Judy Rowley
  3. pp. 105-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0000
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  1. A History with Trees
  2. Marie Ostarello
  3. pp. 119-130
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0004
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  1. Face Blind
  2. Dana Rozier
  3. pp. 131-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0008
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Comments on the Form

  1. The Art of Lying—Or Risking the Wrath of Oprah
  2. D. K. McCutchen
  3. pp. 147-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0012
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Roundtable

  1. Roundtable: Teaching the Classical Essay
  2. Michael Danko, Michelle Disler, Kelley Evans, Shannon Lakanen, David Lazar, Patrick Madden, Desirae Matherly
  3. pp. 153-173
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0016
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Book Reviews

Full-Length Reviews

  1. A Family of Strangers (review)
  2. Robert Root
  3. pp. 175-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0020
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  1. (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (review)
  2. Wendy Rawlings
  3. pp. 178-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0024
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  1. Blonde Indian (review)
  2. Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
  3. pp. 180-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0003
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  1. Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball (review)
  2. Joe Gisondi
  3. pp. 183-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0006
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  1. Dough (review)
  2. Jocelyn Bartkevicius
  3. pp. 186-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0010
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Reader-to-Reader: Capsule Reviews

This column invites readers to share their favorite nonfiction books in print. Memoirs, travel writing, nature writing, essay collections, biography, and true adventure are all welcome in these capsule reviews—both of new books and of old favorites still available. Our aim is to keep the best nonfiction alive in a reader-to-reader kind of way. If you have books that you'd like to recommend in this column, contact Mimi Schwartz at Mimi.Schwartz@att.net.

  1. Paula, and: The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child (review)
  2. Richard Wile
  3. pp. 189-191
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0014
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  1. Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture, and: New Buffalo: Journals of a Taos Commune (review)
  2. Merimée Moffitt
  3. pp. 191-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0018
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  1. Homegrown Democrat, and: Good People . . . from an Author's Life (review)
  2. Brent Chesley
  3. pp. 193-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0022
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Contributors

  1. About the Contributors
  3. pp. 199-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.0.0001
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