Rachel Aviv last wrote for the Believer about competitive public speaking.

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  October 2007: Hobson’s Choice
  Psychoanalysis turns all psychiatrists into literature critics; what does it do to neuroscientists studying the brain during dreams?
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  February 2007: Toastmaster
  Uncovering the ultimate hypocrisy of public speaking.
• March 2006: Fat Fiction
  If overweight people are in fact an oppressed minority, it’s one with only a handful of writer-champions.
• November 2004: Review of Lucy Corin’s Everyday Psychokillers