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"GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is&#8212;in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten&#8217;s story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories&#8212;the one about &#8220;The Great Zucchini,&#8221; a wildly popular but personally flawed children&#8217;s entertainer; the search for the official &#8220;Armpit of America&#8221;; a profile of the typical American nonvoter&#8212;all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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