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media debate • books • movies

"The Giver" (2014); detail from movie poster
How Hollywood Screws up YA Books

Theme Essay for John Michael Bell

Even Meryl Streep, as Chief Elder, has little to do but grimace.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Cartoon © Donald Langosy
Proust Returns to Paris

Comics by Donald Langosy

Ah, childhood...you are but a wispy emblem in reality...

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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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fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Vine” © Rich Orris; Creative Commons license
Reach

Essay by Michele Popadich

My own porch looked unlived-in, a stage for a performance that had yet to happen.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"Disgruntled" (detail) © Jill Slaymaker; used by permission
We Could Be Cyborgs

Two Poems by Lesley Wheeler

Natural, at this age, to decay and disjoint—to seek chemical solder and replacement parts.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Mei-Ling Hopgood: "American Parents Go a Little Nutty"

TW Interview by William Gray

I had that mommy guilt about what I was doing.

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