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media debate • books • movies

Fictional detective heroes aren’t bound by the normal laws of space and time.

why I write • faith • visual art

My unquestionably beautiful surroundings, once so freeing, now seem limiting.

advice • teaching • interviews

The whole online world drives me nuts. I hate the pressure of feeling like I need to go on Facebook and be witty."

fiction • memoir • writer's life

You'd think it would be easy to write a bad sentence—but that takes just as much work.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Snow White, anemic: Should have eaten more red meat.

from adoption to writerly sins...

I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.