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media debate • books • movies

Where's Bilbo?

Film Review by Martha Nichols

I could complain about Ian McKellen’s overacting as Gandalf, but what’s really wrong with this movie is the writing.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Rebecca Sugar Comic (panel 6) © Mercury-Marvin Sunderland; used by permission
My Meeting with Rebecca Sugar

Comic Feature by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

Art school helps, but stubbornness and passion for learning are vital.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

From "Boxers and Saints" © Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
Gene Yang: “I Hated Assigned Reading”

TW Interview by William Gray

At the heart of all young adult literature is this equation: belonging + power = identity.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

A Guy in a Metal Suicide-Box

Book Excerpt by William Least Heat-Moon

On Shakespeare’s birthday I received my first rejection: 'Perhaps your travels seem interesting to you, but to others...'

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Perfect" © Jill Slaymker; used by permission
Oasis

Poem by Lucille Lang Day

Where does meaning lurk in a universe where mountains are mangy from fires and logging?

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

“Marchers Carrying Banner Lead Way as 15,000 Parade in Harlem” © New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper; Stanley Wolfson, photographer; public domain
White People

Memoir by Kent Jacobson

You’re what the white folks hate, the races mixing, and the girl knows better.

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