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Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic by Tatiana Lungin is the first comprehensive biography of the renowned psychic Wolf Messing. This fascinating memoir recounts Messing’s rise to fame in Europe, his escape from Nazi persecution, and his incredible career in the USSR, where he became a psychic sensation even under Stalin’s scrutiny. In this, the first biography and personal memoir of Wolf Messing to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present.

"Like Tens of Millions of Matchsticks, California's Dead Trees Stand Ready to Burn" is from the August 29, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Cynthia H. Craft and narrated by Kristi Burns.