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On The Gist, a case for the modern office as a subject of high literature. J. Bradford Hipps discusses finding more than mockery in the anonymous office park where he set his novel, The Adventurist.
For the Spiel, an economical five minutes on the five hours the FBI director spent testifying at a congressional hearing.
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