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media debate • books • movies

"Our Parlor / Living Room Boro Park Brooklyn 1976" ©  Anthony Catalano
Movies with My Mother—and James Agee

Essay by Marc Schiffman

I could still hear the movie voices circling at the bottom of the staircase like lost and scared children in a forest.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

36 Views at the Seawall

Image Essay by Susan Denniston

Watching the destruction and repair of seawalls has compelled us to reconsider our response to a rising tide and damaging storms.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

William Robinson: “The Quick Whip of a Sentence”

TW Interview by Rebecca Meacham

I didn't intentionally start out by saying "I'm going to write about a character who is ‘immoderately adrift.’

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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

Gertrude Stein vs. William Carlos Williams

Essay by Carol Dorf

Like children shuttling between the homes of divorced parents, American poets feel obliged to negotiate poetic lineages.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"Hello, You Said" © Dave Sims; used by permission only
Hello, You Said

Comic by Dave Sims

Trapped between tomorrow and today....

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