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trends
media debate • books • movies

Harbach and the Hard Sell

Feature by David Biddle

It must be bizarre to be Chad Harbach right now, contemplating the similarities between his own story and that of his main character.

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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

Jennifer Egan: “I Needed to Let Go of Chronology”

TW Interview by Karen J. Ohlson

The gamble was whether this…combustion would happen, of all the chapters together.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Mom and Meryl” by Stephanie Tabachnikoff (1986) © Meryl Natchez
My Mother’s Exit

Essay by Meryl Natchez

I didn’t see how I could say no. I knew if I were in her shoes, I’d feel the same.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Red-Billed Gull” © Ben; Creative Commons license
Mary Cresswell: Three Ghazals

TW Poetry Spotlight

No seagulls are liars.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

The Devil Made Me Write It

Editor’s Note by Martha Nichols

If human beings were perfect, there would be no stories.

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