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Yee Cannot Expect to Be Both Grand and Comfortable

Jesse Walker | 10.12.2005 2:21 PM

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My favorite piece of Katrina journalism is still Matt Taibbi's gonzo dispatch for Rolling Stone. But Michael Lewis' story in the last New York Times Magazine is a close second.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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