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This week\u2019s episode is a slew of firsts: a five-essay, four-microphone, three-guest, two-part show we recorded (mostly) outside on Elena\u2019s patio. In Part 1, your co-hosts welcome regular guests David, Bonnie, and Arlo to discuss selections from Best American Essays 2003, a volume Elena happened upon in her neighborhood little free library. We talk about Atul Gawande\u2019s essay \u201cThe Learning Curve,\u201d Ian Frazier\u2019s \u201cResearchers Say\u201d--both first published in the New Yorker--and the Rachel Cohen essay \u201cLost Cities,\u201d originally from Threepenny Review. Also, David makes a 2003-specific cocktail, we discuss where we were in 2003, and more.