What Authors Have To Do With It
“When I first read E.B.White, I was brand new to reading and brand new to life. It didn’t occur to me that he was some man, that his characters were invented in his head, or based on himself, or based...
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E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing....
View ArticleWord of the Day: Frigiferous
(adj.); bearing or bringing cold; from the Latin frigus (“cold”)There’s no denying it, as much as we might wish to: the Northern Hemisphere is in the midst of the coldest part of the year. We temper...
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The Last Book I Loved: Dear Lil Wayne
When I was 16, I got my first job as a barista. When I was 17 and I went away to school, I got my second job as a barista. When I was 18 and I went to Texas alone for the summer, I got my third job as...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #29: Literary Bitches
I’m a bitch. By that I mean: I am proud to have an essay included in the anthology, The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier, published yesterday. Edited by Cathi Hanauer, this is a...
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The Sacred Act of Art-Making: A Conversation with Patrick Coleman
I first met Patrick Coleman in graduate school. Though he was a year ahead of me, we ended up in a few classes together, including a small seminar on novel-writing taught by the warm and irreverent...
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