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View all Trend piecesHaving a famous parent is a leg up to nowhere. It made sense to people that Kurt Vonnegut’s son would have mental health problems.
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View all Inspirational piecesEvery walk I took with my daughter, the world opened before me as if newly created.
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View all Craft piecesMore than a few graduates do recollect the Workshop’s warts: episodes of cutthroat competition, the classroom’s sexual jungle.
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View all StoriesBecause our religion always marked us as oddities—the people who didn’t believe in doctors—my mother cringed at anything she thought was not socially normal.
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View all PoetryDo our brains react to beauty even when we are not thinking about it?
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View all Hot TopicsIn the battle over submission fees, what troubles me most is the idea that writers do everything and editors do nothing.
