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media debate • books • movies

"Statistics of Progression" @ Rune Guneriussen
Don’t Kill the Critics

Editor’s Note by Martha Nichols

The old infrastructure for evaluating literature is crumbling beneath my feet, and not for the right reasons.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

A Day in Combray with Marcel Proust
A Day in Combray with Marcel Proust

Comics by Donald Langosy

The last time we spoke you mentioned that you had been overtaken by an existential crisis...

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

ThirstDC Crowd © Tony Hitchcock
ADHD Writers, Unite!

Theme Essay by William Gray

Sitting down to write this is the longest stretch I’ve managed in two days, and it’s because I’m on a deadline.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Novel Script on Wood" © Chris Greene
Wish I Could Quit You

Essay by Steve Adams

For days, weeks, even months, you slog onward as if hacking through switchgrass with a machete.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Tree of Life” © Janel Houton; used by permission
The Naming of Small Things

Poem by Barbara Edelman

This land is rainforest, charged by rhythms of cicadas.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"Tiny Frog" © Theodore Scott; Creative Commons license
The Gift of Connecting with Animals

Theme Essay by Wendy Townsend

If not for my books and the iguana I rescued from a pet shop, I’m not sure how I would have survived.

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