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Ben Shattuck

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The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • May 2, 2022
What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner

  • The Rumpus
  • December 10, 2021
Books releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • July 4, 2018
A weekly roundup of essays we're reading online!
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First and Last Songs: The Extinct Song of the Kaua‘i ‘Ö‘ö

  • Ben Shattuck
  • July 2, 2018
I wanted to talk to someone who might have heard the last animal at the end of its species’ five-million-year run on earth.
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How to Rediscover the Arctic Circle

  • Michelle Vider
  • December 7, 2015
Ben Shattuck writes for Lit Hub on the history of mapping and discovering the Arctic Circle, a history that becomes increasingly valuable as the polar ice disappears.
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On Art and Writing

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • October 26, 2015
Trying to convey emotion in composition (plot) and not brushwork (emotional question) is misguided. Author Benjamin Percy has a quote that applies to this: “A-list movies are always about a…
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