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February 4, 2021February 23, 2021 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Robert Coover on Writing, Reading, and More

  Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 89, today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Here are some quotes from a writer whose…

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March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: The County Coroner, by Sarah Blackman

  Happy birthday, Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published March 5, 2019!   Dr. Hoff says:…

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February 4, 2020July 27, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Robert Coover on Writing, Reading, and More

  Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 88, today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Here are some quotes from a writer whose…

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May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Joanna Russ’s And Chaos Died

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…

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April 12, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

  No surprise Trina had spent half her inheritance on something abandoned. Years before, she’d exchanged chains of emails with…

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March 26, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

A Ballad of the Lost Octopodes, by Karen An-hwei Lee

  One morning, a day not apparently unlike any other since I arrived in this small place, I woke, and…

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March 5, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Writing

The County Coroner, by Sarah Blackman

  Dr. Hoff says: Daddy was a country doctor. In suspenders. Making house calls. He specialized in children, but was…

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February 16, 2019April 13, 2021 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Future Home of the Wymans, by Robert Lopez

  I’m sorry I joked about hanging your grandmother is what the young woman next to me said to the…

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February 15, 2019April 13, 2021 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Here to Forget, by Babak Lakghomi

Here to Forget   He meets her in the hostel’s hallway. This hostel is not similar to where he first…

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February 6, 2019April 13, 2021 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Fiction, by Laurie Stone

Letter   I remember a time when everything tasted good. Cold waves did not feel cold, and I couldn’t tell…

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