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While pregnant, the poet and novelist JoAnna Novak embarked on a grant-supported three weeks in Taos, N.M., to write a book about the monastic painter Agnes Martin. The result, “Contradiction Days,” ...

Forty years of a general, office-based internal medicine practice provided him with enough experiences, anecdotes and stories to fill several volumes. And he has done so. “Bag Balm and Duct Tape” ...