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Win Bassett

@winbassett

Win Bassett is a writer and lawyer from North Carolina who begins Yale Divinity School next month. His work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, Books & Culture, Religion & Politics, The Rumpus, Publishers Weekly , and INDY Week .

"Why’s this so good?" No. 81: Lawrence Wright and the "bootleg preacher"

I’m old enough to have practiced as a state prosecutor for a while, but I still laugh at fart jokes. Regardless of the flatulent punch line, Larry the Cable Guy’s…