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Guia Cortassa
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Ten Times Ten Miller
Ten years after his death in 2005, Arthur Miller’s centenary proved a bumper year for productions of his work, and not all of it the old familiars. The Los Angeles Review of Books shares an adapted essay of a lecture Professor Murray Biggs…
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Cards of Literature, Future and Past
Over at the New Yorker, Peter Bebergal considers the presence of the tarot in literature in light of Jessa Crispin’s newly published book, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life.
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Of Boston and Poetry
But any poet today who shared Longfellow’s taste would be laughed out of the room. He wanted heroism; we want the ordinary. He wanted grand dramas; we want insightful understatement. He wanted music; we want images. Over at the Ploughshares blog,…
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A Running Start
Over at The Offing, Linda Chavers pens an important letter to “black girls everywhere”: I am giving you the prologue. You must go forward accepting and understanding that no one will ever do it as well as you do, and…
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Places to Call Home
Rather than being shot at, my new fear would be of seeing the officers unleash violence upon a helpless body, having to watch within the confines of my approximated uniform, padded with a bullet proof vest, which would incontrovertibly claim…
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The Submitting Editor
At The Review Review, Allison Linville offers some tips on submitting based on her time working as a managing editor for a major literary magazine.
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School of (an Author’s) Life
Turns out writing projects and homework assignments are pretty much the same! Over at McSweeney’s, Nick Hornby offers his son eight handy excuses, learned over the course of Hornby’s own thirty-year career, for not handing in his school assignments.
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Afrofuturist Worries
Underwriting the words on that page are the counterposing sentiments I see in many writers I know, especially writers of color: At one pole there’s, I just want to be okay; I want my family/community to be okay. At the…
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Truth or Consequences
I was a kid. In many ways, I’m still a kid, trapped in the extended adolescence of the post-irony, post-sincerity millennial era; I came of age in America under the Bush Administration, a world where words, masquerading as truths, became…
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Switching Languages
At the Guardian, Jhumpa Lahiri recounts the path that led her to write her latest book in Italian, though she is a non-native speaker: A week after arriving [in Rome], I open my diary to describe our misadventures and I…
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A Wife and a Challenger
Over at Catapult, read Patrick Ryan’s new short story “Go Fever,” about aerospace engineering, an attempted murder, and the Challenger’s explosion.
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A Graveyard on the Shelf
Jutting out from the depths are exactly what I was looking for: bookmarks. Rows upon rows of them, in fact. But instead of alleviating my current need, the image fills me with a brief—but very real—dread. Over at Read It…