Into Thin Air (The Women on Flight 305)
The only thing different about Dan Cooper was his bomb.
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...moreAmid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
...moreA fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
...moreKathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
...moreNoé Álvarez discusses his debut memoir, SPIRIT RUN.
...moreRobin Hemley discusses his new essay collection, BORDERLINE CITIZEN.
...moreTaneum Bambrick discusses her debut poetry collection, VANTAGE.
...morePoet Rick Barot discusses his existing body of work and the forthcoming collection THE GALLEONS.
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...moreJoseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
...moreAbout a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
...moreI love the United States, too. Like a house I was raised in, though, I know it up close and can spot its many fissures.
...moreBookstores are getting more political because of Trump. And as it turns out, getting political is pretty good for business. Facebook deleted and then restored an Oak Park, Michigan bookstore’s page over a stray copyright claim.
...moreWendy C. Ortiz discusses her new book Bruja, what a “dreamoire” is, the magic all around us, and why she loves indices—and cats.
...moreWhy do you think God gave you those narrow hips, if not for wearing blue suit pants?
...moreIn summertime, a small group of white, middle-aged, well-educated men were obsessed with my ass.
...moreI am trying to make sense of myself as much as the place. It is so easy to conflate ‘where I was from’ with ‘who I was there.’
...moreWhat book do you think of when you think of Georgia? How about Washington? Business Insider has a neato map pairing each of the fifty states with the most famous book set there. The two states above correspond to Gone with the Wind and Twilight, respectively. The Rumpus shares a state with Grapes of Wrath.
...moreMaya Angelou is ruffling some feathers with a recent statement insulting the choice of words that are splayed across the side of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Washington: “I was a drum major for justice peace and righteousness.” She expressed her discontent with her own choice words: “The quote makes Dr. Martin […]
...moreIntroduction I think the best criteria for judging the quality of a film is whether you’re still thinking about it a week after you watched it. Then there are those films we return to in our thoughts time and time again over the course of years. I find myself thinking about Jane Campion’s The Piano, […]
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