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A package on Southern writers: profiles, interviews and an 11-state directory of writers you may never have heard of but are worth your time. Appeared in Creative Loafing chain. - "Mass Appeal"
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How the first West Point graduate from South Vietnam disappears after the fall of Saigon, only to be rescued by his classmates two decades later. A cover story in The Washington Post Magazine
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A map of newspapers in the U.S. who published "The Holly Wreath Man" serial novel since 2003. - "The Needle" - A Work in Progress
Battling for Men's Minds - "Mad Looper"
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