Ben Ryder Howe has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and New York聽magazine, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel Writing. He is a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He, his wife, and their two children live on Staten Island. He is the author of .
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国产吃瓜黑料, big and small, is all about risk. The risk that things may go terribly wrong. That danger will finally cut off your credit and hit you with a hefty bill. That luck will flee the scene as the dark tide rises. In the tales of calamity that follow, our 13 unlucky writers hold forth on their personal odysseys into the land of nightmares.
Having a parasite hitch a ride under your skin is bad enough. Evicting the little bugger is even worse.
Panama's mythic Dari茅n Gap鈥攁 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America鈥攈as swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land. Our explorer spent six weeks trying to penetrate Dari茅n's heart of darkness, but the Gap still fiercely protects its secrets.