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  • On Sequencing

    Featured, Tin House Flash Fidelity blog, viewable here. — Here’s the tradeoff if you’re a male bee. The female honeybee does not need a partner to reproduce. She can lay an unfertilized egg, and it will hatch male. If she lays a fertilized egg, it will hatch female. Thus every male bee has one parent and

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  •  Winner, 2014 Birmingham Arts Journal Electra Award for prose. — Consider the things that have to happen for a tornado to form. A tornado starts miles above us. In the atmosphere, a vortex of air called a mesocyclone rotates around a supercell thunderstorm way up out of reach, until heavy rainfall from the storm starts

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  • What does money smell like? Depends on how you mean. Cash can smell like strength and power, or like status and new leather. It lingers after it passes, a dab of L’eau Serge Luten behind the ear, or a wisp of Woodford Reserve that turns your head. We bury our longings and a passing moment

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  • She Built This City

    Nashville Lifestyles magazine, September 2013. Cover image copyright Nashville Lifestyles. — Last year, Callie Khouri showed America the first city she ever loved. A successful first season and a contemptuous back-and-forth later, Nashville and its creator are back in Music City. By Scott Latta With all due respect to the Oscar winner, the Emmy nominees,

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  • NATIVE Magazine, August 2013. — There are many ingredients behind the longstanding success of Bobbie’s Dairy Dip. The most important, the owner says, goes beyond what’s found in the kitchen. By Scott Latta Somewhere outside Seoul, South Korea, there’s an older Korean couple enjoying their retirement. This couple may be out, one average day, perhaps

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