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		<title>Garden &#038; Gun Features &#8220;Dig Me a Grave&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Dig Me a Grave, cowritten with Shaun Assael, is Harpootlian’s account of that prosecution intertwined with a chronicle of Gaskins’s crimes. It’s a haunted and haunting read."]]></description>
		
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		<title>Greg Lindberg’s Plan to Live Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After successfully appealing a high-profile bribery conviction, the North Carolina billionaire has reinvented himself as an anti-aging guru. But can he run out the clock on his mounting legal troubles?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wilt/Nixon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politico]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to make a return to Politico Magazine with this look back at the 1968 GOP Convention, and how Richard Nixon recruited the biggest baskebtall star in the world to woo Black voters.

Wilt Chamberlain was pilloried for his embrace of Nixon. But more than fifty years later, voters may be on the cusp of vindicating him.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dept. of (my) History: The Last Lecture</title>
		<link>https://shaunassael.com/the-last-lecture/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don't usually write in memoir, but my dad's retirement, at the age of 88, made me think about how the generations look differently at the concept, and whether it's okay to retire 30 years before your father. Here, then, is a conversation full of questions and received wisdom ... ]]></description>
		
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		<title>WINNER: Best Magazine Writing</title>
		<link>https://shaunassael.com/the-botanist-was-a-plant/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Smithsonian]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My debut in Smithsonian Magazine is this strange but true thriller about the swashbuckling 18th Century naturalist Andre Michaux, and the friendship with Thomas Jefferson that nearly ruined him. Hear a podcast, too.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Home Court</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oxford American]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this chronicle of the struggles of African Americans to play tennis in the segregated South, a five-year-old novice meets a doctor who changes history by building a clay court in his backyard. Will someone please make this into a movie?!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bye Bye, Doll</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#georgeharrison]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This may sound morbid, but I really don&#8217;t mean it that way&#8230; We are on this earth for a short time, and as Warren Zevon once said, you have to enjoy every sandwich. Zevon is among a very select group of artists who left us with great death albums. His disc, The Wind, was released [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dept. of (my) History</title>
		<link>https://shaunassael.com/the-dept-of-my-history-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bodacious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuff Hedeman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, Penthouse sent me to Las Vegas to interview Bodacious, the meanest rodeo bull who ever lived. I found him biding his time in a Home Depot parking lot. What could go wrong?]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Demagogue</title>
		<link>https://shaunassael.com/the-demagogue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GQ.com]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A profile in GQ of the alt.right's most surprising survivor.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dept. of (my) History. Part I</title>
		<link>https://shaunassael.com/reflections-on-the-worst-school-shooting-in-american-history-19-years-ago/</link>
					<comments>https://shaunassael.com/reflections-on-the-worst-school-shooting-in-american-history-19-years-ago/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shaun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dept. of (my) History]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In September 1999,  ESPN Magazine sent me to Littleton, Colorado, to chronicle the aftermath of what was then the worst high school shooting in American history. For a glimpse at how little has changed in the last 25 years, here's a look back at what I wrote about Columbine High School soon after the massacre.]]></description>
		
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