Tag: Clippings

Confidence in Culture
New work in the March 15, 2014 issue of This Land
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March 15, 2014
The State that Oil Built
Find my latest article on newsstands today!
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December 13, 2013
When the Rodeo Clowns Came
I live surrounded by retirees in rural Oklahoma. They are spry. They own arsenals of gardening equipment: lawnmower-tractor hybrids that grind through the fibrous local flora with cruel efficiency; they wield wicked contraptions, whirling motorized blades that allow withered men to sculpt hedges into forms of sublime and delectable complexity.
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September 30, 2013
On Bohemian Life in the Sooner State
HOMEWARD BOUND: Tahlequah via Brooklyn: James McGirk writes notes from a screened-in porch in a city that sleeps.
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September 16, 2013
Destination Oklahoma: Route 66
What you really need to live here is a truck. Maybe not in the cities, but out here, in the foothills of the Ozarks, where the roads flood when the creek overflows its banks, and even traversing a parking lot means tumbling into tooth shattering ruts and axle scraping bumps: you do.
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August 5, 2013
The Cheat Code to Life
Sneaky tricks, workarounds, and creative rule-bending to outwit the chumps and get what you want.

(My stories are Reddit Pizza scamming, and apocalypse cheats)
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July 16, 2013
The Great Spy’s Dream
I asked Patrick if there was anything particularly useful he could pass on to me “about the CIA.” “The first thing to remember is that nobody connected to the Agency calls it the CIA. It’s plain CIA.”

—Harry Mathews, My Life in CIA.
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July 8, 2013
The Splashy Debut Novel is Dead—Or Is It?
Are the big publishing houses using independent presses as a farm league to scout for talent, and exiting the market for big-gamble debuts? James McGirk reports.
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June 13, 2013
The Metropolitan Trilogy
After writing a spate of reasonably successful—and very autobiographical—novels, James Ellroy and Martin Amis took the cities surrounding them and used them as test beds, experimenting with new voices and forms and populating this familiar terrain with doppelgangers and villains and foils and sexual obsessions.
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June 10, 2013
Moore, OK Tornado Reporting Credits (i.e. not bylines)
June 3rd, 2013 Cover

16 Minutes

Tornado-Ravaged Moore Takes First Steps to Recovery

Wrenching Decisions as Tornado Flattens School
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June 6, 2013