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media debate • books • movies

"Ernest Hemingway, Paris, circa 1924"; John F. Kennedy Library, Ernest Hemingway Collection (National Archive)
Rich Writers vs. the Critics—and Me

Theme Essay by Anna Coppola

Some people might criticize me for expecting a literary author to hold my hand and make it easy.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"The Glinters Underwater" © Aurora Chisté
Entrepreneurs Under the Water

Image Essay by Aurora Chisté

Water represents a discomfort zone for most people—a place where entrepreneurs and creative artists live.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Jen Cross
Author Talk: Jen Cross

Video Interview by Elizabeth McShane

Many sexual trauma survivors find themselves living a messy reality.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

Ancient Greek Kylix; Public Domain
Deaf Uncle

TW Prizewinning Flash Fiction by Charlotte M. Porter

His father, Ronald “Beau” Rutledge, III, pronounced coin like co-win although he didn’t care a fig for teamwork.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Ben Purkert © Siddhartha Sinha; used by permission
Ben Purkert: Sinister, Brutal, and Honest

TW Interview by David Cameron

Whoever is holding the book is the beloved in some sense.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

“Ring of Kerry Lookout and Car Park, Ireland” © Nils Nedel; public domain
Return to New York

Report by Keith Langston

The feeling of being protected, of being immune, and of being separate vanished.

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