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    <body><![CDATA[some great stories in here and allot of people I've never heard of. Allot of stranger then fiction material, but I always enjoy reading about Hemingway, people impersonating Russian royalty, and light-skinned-black-literary-critics that spend their lives evading their race.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are examples of an amazing genre.  I love to read the New Yorker's profiles when I have time. Joseph Mitchell, the author of Mr. Hunter's Grave,&quot; has a collection out entitled <em> Up in the Old Hotel</em>, which I highly recommend.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories make the ordinary extraordinary, and although that may sound like a back cover review quote, it's true. I started reading this book to get a break from Guns, Germs, and Steel. I felt like every time I read about a new historical tribe or new society, it was a tease because the next cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14016112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By far, the best compilation of profiles :)) LOVE IT!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted this book to be perfect and it wasn't. It made me realize that too many New Yorker profiles are too long and too staidly written. That said, there are some fantastic examples of the form here. The contributions from Richard Preston, Lillian Ross, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, and janet Malcolm are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20792411">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Want to know how to write a good profile? Here you go.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the one about Bush.]]></body>
    
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