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alex chertok

  • Guia Cortassa

    Little White Lies

    Over at the Ploughshares blog, Alex Chertok writes about every author’s necessary little white lies: As adults, we should hold each other’s work to high standards, and our own work to the highest of all. As writers, we shouldn’t settle for a…

  • P.E. Garcia

    Writing Outward to Write Inward

    I wrote toward the place that scared me. What happened was that the wellspring from which I wrote ended up nourishing my life. Writing changed me, composed me—behavior and all. For the Ploughshares blog, Alex Chertok explores his fears and…