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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1: Poetry That Moves Like a City Street

I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #23: Plays to Devour on the Page and the Stage

Of course it’s tremendous to see a play on stage, but reading a play, its script, is a pleasure in its own right. I think for many of us the…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape

Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return next week! In the meantime, purchase your ticket to The Rumpus and Rare Bird’s AWP 2016 offsite event, where Anna will be reading alongside Cornelius…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #22: Classic Novels That Are a Joy to Read

Sometimes we bypass the classic novels on the way to the rich offering of current literary fiction. Fair enough; there is so much to love in today’s fiction. But once…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #21: John Irving

And that is how I feel about John Irving novels. That they gave me everything.

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #20: Greats

Great strides, great artists, great desires, great complexity—this week’s books are all about these kinds of greats. They also all showcase exceptional writing and take us far and wide—from elective…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #19: Truth

Truth—a higher, bigger truth—is what I want when I read. I want to nod my head in radical understanding. I want to grasp our complex, fragile humanity better. I want…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #18: A Valentine: Fab Books by Fab Lit Citizens

I’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #17: A Few Smart, Beautiful, Recent Books

You’ll want to devour this bunch—favorites of mine from a wildly disparate batch of recent reads.

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #16: For My Friend Craig, on a Boozy Midnight

You know how you can like a book just fine, but if you love a book, you’ll tell a friend about it? I told my friend Craig about all of these…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #15: Beautiful Renderings of Complex Locales

In both fiction and non-fiction, I love a book that helps us unravel ourselves by illuminating place, a book that transports me from here to there. These six books will…

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #14: Memoirs about Hard Times and Beauty

I love memoirs about difficult times that don’t sugarcoat it, that don’t pretty it up. I love a memoir that finds the beauty—there is such an unbelievable amount of beauty…

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