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January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized

The Barthelme Problem

[This post is something of a response to John’s recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby,…

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December 1, 2010December 1, 2010 - Uncategorized

Style as Imitation

1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…

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May 3, 2010March 8, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Laura van den Berg

“My mother was always surprised by time.” —Joy Williams, “Escapes”   A beautiful sentence from an exquisitely heart-breaking story that…

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February 19, 2010 - Uncategorized

For those of you with students of the creative writing persuasion…

Please tell them about the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts. This is the best summer writing…

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