PLANK JUNE 19, 2012
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How strange is Fiona Apple? One magazine writer's quest to find out.
NY Mag| 29 min (7,349 words)
Sentenced to life in prison, Jon Yount became a gifted jailhouse lawyer and a crusader for prisoner rights. This past April, he hanged himself in his cell. How did the system fail?
Dissent | 8 min (2,018 words)
Adults should realize what all children seem to know: Roald Dahl is a true giant of literature.
Los Angeles Review of Books| 8 min (1,907 words)
Hillary Clinton is the first secretary of state to face a unique challenge: conducting diplomacy in the age of Twitter.
Foreign Policy | 25 min (6,311 words)
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