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Bill Buford

Bill Buford , a former fiction editor at The New Yorker , is the author of “ Among the Thugs ,” “ Heat ,” and “ Dirt .”

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The Secret of Excess
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Bill Buford’s Profile of Mario Batali, the boisterous chef and restaurateur who became wildly popular by changing the way people think about Italian cooking in America.

Delta Nights
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Bill Buford spends time with the singer, whose songs aren’t rock and roll, or blues, or country, but are primarily about love and loss.