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Fifty of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World
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Louder Than Words: Real Girls. Real Words. Real Life.
My alma mater, SCPA, is soon to be the nation’s only K-12 public school of the arts. The new facility,…
Gchat about James Cameron’s Avatar (with spoiler alert).
Below is a grammatically corrected version of a Gchat I had with Jacob S. Knabb, editor of Another Chicago Magazine,…
Best of 2009 Part Three: Miscellany
I’ve taken you through books and music. I haven’t had a chance to go out to many movies this year…
Respect for Reprints
Literary journals are a hydra-headed monster offering more and more opportunities to publish with each tick of the clock (and…
Mary Caponegro
Mary Caponegro’s All Fall Down, her latest collection of stories and novellas, was, for me, one of 2009’s most powerful…
When people ask you what you write about, what do you say?
People ask me this question all the time and it never gets easier to answer. This query has been fueled…
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