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\"zorn\"<\/a>

Anders Zorn, Portrait of Emma Zorn<\/i>, 1887, oil on canvas, 15.8″ \u00d7 23.9″.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a not-so-glamorous Las Vegas, Kerry Howley <\/strong>watches as a UFC fighter starves himself before weighing in, visiting all-you-can-eat buffets just to see everything he\u2019s missing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In the twenty-four hours between weigh-ins and the fight, Erik would gain twenty pounds, and he took great pleasure in imagining of what those pounds would consist. The Rio Buffet, he informed me, offered three hundred distinct dishes, seventy varieties of pie, an array of \u201cbars,\u201d including a sushi bar, a taco bar, and a stir-fry bar. He knew its small army of friendly spoon-holding servers, its fifty yards of curving black countertop, its unaccountable progression from sausage pizza to cocktail shrimp to scrambled eggs to lentil soup to crab legs to fried fish to sushi to green salad to gravy-slathered pork chops to honeyed ham to flank steak to barbecue ribs to burritos to tacos to waffles to spring rolls to dumplings to sweet-and-sour pork to eggs Benedict to bacon to one giant vat of ketchup to croissants to cubed mango to green-bean salad to seven kinds of lettuce to the gelato-and-pastries bar whose delights are too many to enumerate but which Erik would attempt to enumerate if given the chance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Forrest Gander <\/strong>on the mysterious end of Ambrose Bierce<\/a>, a hundred years ago: \u201cAccording to witnesses, Bierce died over and over again, all over Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeff Simmermon <\/strong>started a band with a guitar, a typewriter, and a pair of chickens who peck at toy pianos<\/a>. They wanted to tour Japan. Al Sharpton got mixed up in it, and the whole affair provided a strange and invaluable lesson about artistic ambition and closure…
<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new Italian novel takes Antony Shugaar <\/strong>back into the Years of Lead, a time of kidnappings and earthquakes and cholera epidemics<\/a>: \u201cThose who say they want to leave this country, or simply spend their whole lives saying they want to leave, do so because they want to save themselves. Well, I\u2019m staying here. Because I don\u2019t want to be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, Sadie Stein<\/strong>\u2019s dispatches from Berlin, where the chefs carry around Spinoza\u2019s Ethics<\/em><\/a> and the cabbies are fluent in Patrick Modiano<\/a>; Terry Southern <\/strong>goes skeet shooting<\/a>; and all of us get an irrefutable, statistical answer, at last, to that most pressing question: How often do Oscar Wilde\u2019s characters fling themselves onto couches, sofas, and\/or divans<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a not-so-glamorous Las Vegas, Kerry Howley watches as a UFC fighter starves himself before weighing in, visiting all-you-can-eat buffets just to see everything he\u2019s missing: In the twenty-four hours between weigh-ins and the fight, Erik would gain twenty pounds, and he took great pleasure in imagining of what those pounds would consist. 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