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	Off the Road : A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Hitt's reflections on Romanesque architecture brings it to life and for someone like me who has seen a lot of Gothic, Baroque and Rococo -- I know this sounds crazy but I yearn to smell the animal droppings and then segue into one of these "inviting" Romanesque building as Hitt so deftly describes.
		Jack Hitt's writing style is endlessly introspective, and so it is with no small surprise that when he set off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the resulting book would be full of allegory for his own personal travels.
		Hitt admits this upfront, however, and the result is a book that is entertaining, but perhaps never quite as deep as he tries for.
	www.travelpromote.us /books-reviewed/0671758187.html (1227 words)

	National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HITT: She always claimed that it was the first interracial marriage in Charleston legally recognized.
		HITT: After the marriage, the press went to Margaret Rutherford, Gordon's adopted mother, whose comment was, 'I understand that Gordon has changed his sex, and that's fine.
		SIEGEL: Jack Hitt wrote about Dawn Langley Simmons for GQ magazine and also for the public radio program "This American Life." He is a contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine and spoke to us from New Haven, Connecticut.
	www.ntac.org /news/00/09/29npr.html (698 words)

	Road Reads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hitt does it because it seems like a nice hike (albeit 500 miles long) and an opportunity to wipe clean one's spiritual slate.
		In a wry, unassuming style, Hitt describes his quotidian challenges, such as personal hygiene (a farmer tells pilgrims they "reek like a shut barn"), bad directions (he spends all day on the trail only to discover he has hiked back to the town he left that morning), loathsome lodgings and blisters.
		Hitt has surprisingly little introspection for someone in such a contemplative undertaking.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/03/25/AR2005032502054_pf.html (168 words)

	JS Online: Harper's tackles environmentaism
		When the mountain man he happened to meet at a friend's house started rhapsodizing about the mystical, magical powers of compost, Jack Hitt had the epiphany that inspired his provocative and witty essay in the July Harper's: Environmentalism has become a religion.
		Hitt's idea isn't original, but he runs with it - or, rather, plays with it - for 15 pages, riffing on topics ranging from pagan gods and Christian parables to the Weather Channel and the Rev. Pat Robertson's wacky attempts to pray hurricanes away from his home town.
		Hitt's essay, "A Gospel According to the Earth," probably won't be popular with either environmentalists or the traditionally religious.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/jul03/153372.asp?format=print (381 words)

	thejusticesystem
		Over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates in a high security prison, as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
		Jack Hitt begins his story about a group of prisoners at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, a high security prison near St. Louis, who are rehearsing and staging a production of Hamlet.
		He discovers that almost all the actors, it turns out, draw on their past in some way or another to get into character, that some of them have committed crimes even worse than he'd imagined, and that cast parties in prison don't take very long.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/agoldman/teaching/thejusticesystem.htm (1975 words)

	"A Gospel According to the Earth" a sermon by Rev. Ann C. Fox Unitarian Memorial Church, Fairhaven, MA August 24, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jack Hitt tells us about his visit with a friend who lived without electricity in a rustic cabin in the woods of Appalachia.
		Jack was glad to be able to tell his friend about his exploding tomatoes.
		Jack was taken aback (and so was I upon reading this account) for what his friend had described was, Jack says, "the consumption of the divine essence.
	www.uufairhaven.org /Ser2003Aug24.htm (1676 words)

	Amazon.com: Off the Road : A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain: Books: Jack Hitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When freelance journalist Hitt decided he needed a long walk, he had in mind the 500-mile trek from Saint-Jean Pied de Port, in France, to Santiago del Compostello, in Spain, one of the medieval routes of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James the Apostle.
		Hitt, a contributing editor to Harper's and Lingua Franca, spent weeks walking this path, where Charlemagne, the Cid, Pope John XXIII, and countless others have tread since the ninth century.
		I especially enjoyed Chapter 7 which is an extended exploration of the rise and fall of the Knights Templar and subsequently the various explanations of the architecture of the fortress in Ponferrada.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743261119?v=glance (1818 words)

	Language Log: Enough said
		Hitt attributes this little just-so story to (unnamed) "general linguists", and he seems to accept the explanation while remaining unconvinced that it matters enough to motivate him to figure out how to express the various "tenses".
		Low why they did this, answered, "Doggies catch otters, old women no." This boy described the manner in which they are killed by being held over smoke and thus choked; he imitated their screams as a joke, and described the parts of their bodies which are considered best to eat.
		Jack Hitt is apparently an accomplished journalist, but in this case, I'm tempted to suggest that the NYT magazine should have saved themselves the air fare, and simply reprinted Darwin's chapter, which is now out of copyright.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000512.html (1416 words)

	Fantasy & Science Fiction - March 1993 - Books to Look For
		He wrote, not as Jack Hitt, of course, but rather as an arrogant and obnoxiously erudite man who had determined to murder his wife and will gladly pay an obscene sum of money for a foolproof plot to kill her in such a way that he will definitely get away with it.
		Only then does he let the writers know that it was not an exclusive assignment (though I assume, of course, that in the real world Jack Hitt actually informed the writers all along), and he asks each of them to critique the others' murder plots and persuade him why he should choose their plot.
		There are only two problems with this book: First, Jack Hitt just isn't as good a writer as the others -- he obviously has not mastered the art of making a narrator both repulsive and fascinating at the same time.
	www.hatrack.com /osc/reviews/f&sf/93-03.html (1159 words)

	North Coast Journal - April 1, 2004: IN THE NEWS
		Hitt was born Sept. 14, 1940 at Trinity Hospital in Arcata and raised in a house next door to his father's shop on I Street, Humboldt Machine.
		Hitt served his community in other ways in addition to his dedication to the printed word.
		Hitt is survived by his father, George Hitt, of Bayside; his sisters Mary Anderson, of Arcata, and Anne Hitt, of Trinidad; his brother Don Hitt, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
	www.northcoastjournal.com /040104/news0401.html (3587 words)

	Off the Road - Jack Hitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hitt set out to increase that total by one.
		Hitt records the action from within the pack, not hesitating to poke fun at himself occasionally.
		Hitt describes these places well for the travel reader, even taking time to summarize the history of miracles.
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Off_the_Road.html (233 words)

	Past Peak: Jack Hitt On Republican Vote Fraud — Transcribed
		Jack Hitt's done a radio piece for "This American Life" that nicely summarizes some of the many cases of organized vote suppression and fraud by Republicans and answers the question: are the Democrats just as bad?
		Hitt: Oh, so you wouldn't hand the person a registration card at all.
		Hitt: And when you called that number, what was supposed, what were you supposed to just say?
	www.pastpeak.com /archives/2004/10/jack_hitt_on_re_1.htm (2158 words)

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		This is a personal note of farewell from within the walls of this bookstore and from some of the current staff who worked for Jack for years.
		Jack tended to do what he thought was right and figure out the logistics later.
		Onward Jack, and in some way you will always be with us and in the very lifeblood of this bookstore.
	www.northtownbooks.com /jackhitt.shtml (305 words)

	The Great Divide
		Similarly, meritocrats will never give Bush the respect he seeks, because to them he is just another daft preppie with a beer in his hand and a smirk on his face, who marauded through every advantage a legacy son can have.
		Jack Hitt is a contributing writer for the magazine.
		This divide underlies so many cultural dichotomies: from competing views of the Dow (well-connected insiders trading blue chips) and the Nasdaq (Jolt Cola-guzzling adventurers pulling all-nighters) to the competing interpretations of affirmative action as either a menace keeping good people out, or as a tool to bring good people in.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20001231mag-wwln.html (963 words)

	Jack Hitt - TheBestLinks.com - This American Life, Stub, ...
		Jack Hitt - TheBestLinks.com - This American Life, Stub,...
		He frequently contributes to magazines, such as the New York Times Magazine and Outside Magazine, and also does pieces for the radio show, This American Life.
		Jack Hitt's work can be heard on the following episodes of This American Life:
	www.thebestlinks.com /Jack_Hitt.html (103 words)

	transex
		Writer Jack Hitt goes on a search for a mysterious neighbor from his childhood in Charleston South Carolina, and stumbles onto an epic story of the Old South, the New South, gender confusion, Chihuahuas and changing values in American journalism.
		Jack's father, the editor of the local paper in Charleston, generally refused to publish anything about Dawn because it was too sensational--even after big city papers and network TV crews decided Dawn was news.
		Jack sets out to find what was true and what was rumor about Gordon Langley Hall, and stumbles onto a sprawling story about changing culture mores in America.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/agoldman/teaching/transex.htm (2090 words)

	The Toonces Report: Knowledge is power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jack Hitt at This American Life has done a short but interesting piece on voter registration.
		Listen to it, because people get away with this kind of stuff only when the rest of us ignore it.
		Jack Hitt also did a great piece last November on electronic voting machines.
	tooncesreport.blogspot.com /2004/10/knowledge-is-power.html (216 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Jack Hitt's article,"The Theory of Supermarkets," he discusses the attraction that supermarkets have on you, the customer.
		On page 57 he explains that "60 percent of all supermarkets begin with produce; the others begin with flowers." Hitt explains that the supermarket's goal is to "tantalize the customer." Another claim that I would make is the layout of the supermarket.
		On page 59, Hitt explains that even "studies have shown that toothbrushes, if placed eye level, will increase in sales by eight percent." This astounds me. Hitt describes the array of choices in a supermarket as a "design to make you feel omnipotent." The choices are only for show as he explians on page 59.
	www.southwestern.edu /~critical/classes/erardm/10013_fall_2000/discussion/super/messages/969321595.html (261 words)

	History News Network
		Where personal characteristics such as courage and integrity most matter are behind the scenes, where the Archivist has a choice of whether or not to push for doing the right thing, whether he prevails or not.
		Jack Hitt drew a bleak picture of NARA during the late 1980s and early 1990's in "Nixon's Last Trump" (Harper's, August 1994).
		to prevent the working archivists from releasing the tapes." Hitt felt that the pressure against disclosure reduced NARA's managers to "obedient sycophants." HNN readers would do well to consider carefully the forces in Washington that then led to so harsh a critique of the nation's record keeper.
	hnn.us /comments/39293.html (491 words)

	Wired 7.11: This Is Your Brain on God
		Over a scratchy speaker, a researcher announces, "Jack, one of your electrodes is loose, we're coming in." The 500-pound steel door of the experimental chamber opens with a heavy whoosh; two technicians wearing white lab coats march in.
		Hundreds of subjects have settled into its itchy embrace, and its brown contours are spotted with dollops of electrode-conducting cream, dried like toothpaste, giving the seat the look of a favored seagulls' haunt.
		Jack Hitt is the author of Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route Into Spain.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html (1055 words)

	assignment6.html
		According to Jack Hitt, these decisions are predetermined by retailers.
		In jack Hitt's words, "perhaps you thought as I did, there was only one postulate of supermarket theory: put milk on one end, and bread in the other to force the shopper to trek the length of the entire store.
		According to Hitt, " A little rubber necking reveals that the rugged butchery is going on the back far from the consumers eyes" (Hitt 1996).
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/pwf98/pw61/assignment6.html (895 words)

	Miscellaneous Hitt Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They would have had to be at least 21 years old to be taxed, so their birth can be estimated as about 1767, however, they could be older.
		Hitt, Jack 24 MO Ripley Co. Vol 81, ED 183, Sht 17, Line 88
		Hitt, Jack 64 MO Howard Co.(Fayette) Vol 31, ED 100, Sht 3, Line 77
	www.geocities.com /ejhitt/hitthelp.html (225 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Journalism Panel, Jack Hitt, Marion Roach, Gary Taubes
		New York State Writers Institute - Journalism Panel, Jack Hitt, Marion Roach, Gary Taubes
		In 1990, he received the Livingston Award for national coverage.
		Hitt’s books include Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (1994) and In a Word: Dictionary (1992).
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/journalism_panel.html (452 words)

	New York Times Company: Our Company: Times Capsule: Building the Capsule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From initial sketches to installation, the two year project involved the talents and skills of a diverse set of artists and craftspeople.
		The process, as described by Jack Hitt in the New York Times Magazine; "Start with a rash idea.
		Jack Rosenthal, president of The New York Times Company Foundation, speaks at the ceremony.
	www.nytco.com /company-capsule-building.html (416 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jack Hitt discusses the structure of a supermarket in his essay, “The Theory of Supermarkets.” He explains how its particular design makes “you feel omnipotent by astounding you with options.” Shoppers are happier knowing that they have the “choice” to choose anything they desire.
		Hitt goes on to say that despite this feeling of control the supermarket is “mostly show.” On page 59, Hitt explains how shoppers are “dazzled by a plethora of international cheeses” but then end up “[retreating] to the familiar.” So, despite the vast array of options, customers tend to stick with a sure thing.
		I could use a point made in Jack Hitt’s essay, “The Theory of Supermarkets,” to discuss how a supermarket uses a specific design to “draw in” the customer.
	www.southwestern.edu /~critical/classes/erardm/10013_fall_2000/discussion/super/messages/969230466.html (177 words)

	[No title]
		The supermarket layout is a chaotic opera of flattery, designed to make you feel that you are a chef picking over the finest in meats, the most delicate in fresh leafy greens, the best in imported condiments.
		Jack Hitt enjoys his excursion to a supermarket.
		He observes an elaborate store with sample tables, happy clerks, and a clean atmosphere (Hitt, 56).
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/pwf98/pw64/assignment6.html (837 words)

	Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Caucasian Eden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tom Tomorrow has posted an excerpt of an article on race by Jack Hitt, a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine.
		Hitt’s piece was a really enjoyable (and very funny) essay, though I think Dillehay is going to be irate about implicitly being lumped in with some “whites settled the americas first” crackpots.
		It actually made my heart sink when I got to it cause I’d been thinking what a fun teaching essay the piece would be up to that point—and then he makes these sort of boneheaded pronouncements that make for nightmare classroom moments.
	savageminds.org /2005/07/05/caucasian-eden (1790 words)

	Global Network - Democrats and Star Wars
		The article, midway in, emphasizes that "the political attention devoted to national missile defense, which is an updated version of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, has obscured its larger purpose.
		The writer, Jack Hitt, says that "at some point the future of space will emerge as a great American debate.
		And "on the other side," the article goes on, is Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and it tells of his bill to "ban completely the weaponization of space." The Times quotes him as saying: "It's bad enough that we've turned space into a junkyard, but they want to turn space into a place of death."
	www.space4peace.org /articles/nextbattlefield.htm (7505 words)

	Are Brands out of Hand?
		At first you might think you had stumbled upon the tiniest proof of synergy.
		At a recent job fair to recruit fresh employees, his team passed out vomit bags printed with the slogan "Sick of your job?"
		Jack Hitt is a contributing writer for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and the public radio program "This American Life." Visit Harvey Alpert & Co. on the Web (www.harveyalpertco.com).
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/40/rftf.html (935 words)

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