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media debate • books • movies

Writing and the Joy of Obscurity

Editor's Note by Martha Nichols

While a love of gossip is part of the human condition, there’s another aspect to contemporary fame that’s raised the stakes for all of us.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Seven Deadly Sins

Image Essay by Isabelle Cardinal

What is imagination, really? Maybe it’s just the little brother of Miss Creativity?

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Why Creative Writers Need Tough Grades

Theme Essay by Kelcey Parker

When I hand back papers, I feel like a juror returning a guilty verdict.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Cooking Fires Behind the Billets—PRPC 1985" © Gaylord Barr; used by permission
From Saigon to Bataan to Ohio

Essay by Tuan Phan

One of our first meals in this new country was the hamburger, a food that was, we were told in the camps, invented by Americans.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"Dance Floor" © Tim Baker
Alan Albert: Two Poems

TW Featured Poet

It was winter when the small wedding happened. Everyone was no taller than six inches.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

A Feminist Invades the Halls of Phallocracy

"My Favorite Critic" by Emily Toth

Carolyn Heilbrun once observed that James Joyce was 'a world class shit.'

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