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and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition

true story of the three world-class athletes who individually became the first runners to break the four-minute mile

Larry Kramer--would compete to shape the city's future while building their own mythologies

a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don't you swallow broken glass

Transcription and how one balances aFrom "the most talented writer of his generation" (The New York Times Magazine), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store or to erase our memories. The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety year old mentor and the