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trends
media debate • books • movies

"My Reading Stats So Far" © Louise Yang
Amazon, Where’s My Readfit?

TW Column by David Biddle​

I’d like to think I average at least 10,000 words a day on my Kindle when I’m using it, but right now, I have no idea how much I read.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"Shockoe Bottom" © Jessica Juriga; Creative Commons license
Church Pew in Transit

Flash Nonfiction by Laura Page

The boy’s pulse listed as he helped me learn the jerk of the clutch.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

JoAnne Growney
Author Talk: JoAnne Growney

Video Interview by Elizabeth McShane

Einstein said, 'Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.'

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Looking Downtown from the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in the 'Fifties'" by Marjory Collins; Library of Congress; public domain
Crossing Town

Essay by Ronnie Hess

I watched each day, until everything, save for one tall building in the middle of the block with doctors’ offices on the first floor, was rubble and dust.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Iceberg” © NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Creative Commons license
Deluge

Two Poems by Lisa Furmanski

I tune to the wren and hear a thousand miles in a syllable.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

“Fantasy” © Fabrice Poussin; used by permission
Adrift

Poems by David Meischen

Beside her, the vase swallows her own shadow.

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