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includes essays by Julie Baumgold on Elvis in Memphis, by Jane Brox on the influenza epidemic of 1918, by Ian Frazier on New York's F train, by Adam Gopnik on Lewis Carroll, by Chang-Rae Lee on cooking for his mother in her last illness, by Joyce Carol Oates on exploring abandoned houses, by William Styron on suffering from syphillis while in the navy in WWII