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The Flesh Underneath: On 'Every Twelve Seconds'

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Timothy Pachirat’s gut-wrenching account of slaughterhouse work.

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Ted Conover
Ted Conover, the author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, is a writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter...

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