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Kelly Lynn Thomas

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Kelly Lynn Thomas reads, writes, and sometimes sews in Pittsburgh, PA. Her creative work has appeared in Sou’wester, Thin Air Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, metazen, and others, and she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She is hopelessly obsessed with Star Wars and can always be found with a large mug of tea. She also runs the very small Wild Age Press. Read more at kellylynnthomas.com.
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On Unequal Publishing

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 13, 2015
Over at the Ploughshares blog, Cathe Shubert discusses the historic nature of sexism in the publishing industry, and urges her readers to keep searching for an early canon of women writers: Despite…
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Writers Respond to Art

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 12, 2015
A new exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum mixes visual art with writing: “Storylines” is about the resurgence of narrative in the visual arts, but it is also about how writers…
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Famous Writers with Weird Jobs

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 12, 2015
Did you know that Chuck Palahniuk worked as a bike messenger? Or that both Stephen King and Ken Kesey worked as janitors? Or that Charles Dickens labeled jars in a…
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Elena Ferrante Talks Anonymity

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 12, 2015
The London Review Bookshop has published a letter pseudonymous writer Elena Ferrante wrote to her publisher before the publication of her first novel in 1991 that sort of explains why…
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Who Watches the Watchmen (and Women)?

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 5, 2015
The New Yorker looks at books that examine the blurry lines around intolerance, political correctness, and free speech. The authors ask if the very people policing intolerance and hate speech are…
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Making Room on the Shelf

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 5, 2015
Women writers, like women activists, have always done a considerable amount of the intellectual heavy lifting required for innovation. And yet try to find many of these women in bookstores:…
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British Artist Turns Bridges Into Instruments

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 29, 2015
Using a variety of gadgets and tools, British artist Di Mainstone has come up with a way to turn suspension bridges into giant musical instruments. She calls this human-bridge interaction the…
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Writers’ Influences Skew Male

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 29, 2015
Independent Irish publisher Tramp Press requests that writers submitting manuscripts list their influences. Co-founder Sarah Davis-Goff had a suspicion that she was only seeing male names among the influencers, so…
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Le Guin Will Answer Writers’ Questions

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 29, 2015
At 86, Ursula K. Le Guin says she doesn’t have the stamina for writing novels or teaching workshops anymore. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to share her knowledge and…
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Fitzgerald Bought Into Ethnic Stereotypes

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 22, 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald may have written beautifully about the Jazz Age, but he had some problems with people of different races and backgrounds, and wrote some rather awful things about black…
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The Editor Who Shaped Mockingbird

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 16, 2015
We’ll never know how Harper Lee’s editor, Therese von Hohoff Torrey, would have felt about the publication of Go Set A Watchman, because she died in 1974. But probably, she wouldn’t…
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Drivel Delivered

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 15, 2015
Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing By Your Favorite Authors, contains exactly what its title promises. The book came out last fall, but Lit Hub just posted a few excerpts, including a comic…
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