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trends
media debate • books • movies

Hurray for Digital Magazines!

TW Opinion by Martha Nichols

Reincarnation online is an act of mercy for Newsweek’s foundering print edition.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"Spell/Charm Bag for NaNoWriMo" © Sasha Kelley; Creative Commons license
Purple Velour and Other Writing Rituals

TW Column by Emily Toth

If I do things just right, the terror of the empty page won’t rise up and engulf me.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Julie Wittes Schlack
Author Talk: Julie Wittes Schlack

Video Interview by Elizabeth McShane

'Beacons' was more autobiographical than most of the fiction I do.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Cooking Fires Behind the Billets—PRPC 1985" © Gaylord Barr; used by permission
From Saigon to Bataan to Ohio

Essay by Tuan Phan

One of our first meals in this new country was the hamburger, a food that was, we were told in the camps, invented by Americans.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Ben Purkert © Siddhartha Sinha; used by permission
Ben Purkert: Sinister, Brutal, and Honest

TW Interview by David Cameron

Whoever is holding the book is the beloved in some sense.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"Norwich Weekender" ©  Ruth Johnston
Clothes to Die In

Flash Nonfiction by Mel Andrews

I’m uncomfortable around ambulances or the overdressed crowds outside funeral parlors.

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