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Hitchcock Got “Rebecca” Dead Wrong

Theme Essay by Elizabeth Langosy

Poor Manderley. You are now possessed by Rebecca—or at least by her enormous head.

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why I write • faith • visual art

"Watchers, Union Square" © Reuben Radding
Controversial Beauty

TW Column by Judith A. Ross

My unquestionably beautiful surroundings, once so freeing, now seem limiting.

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What Writing Program Critics Don’t Know

Theme Essay by Theresa Williams

They think people are either born to be writers or they’re not.

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A Guy in a Metal Suicide-Box

Book Excerpt by William Least Heat-Moon

On Shakespeare’s birthday I received my first rejection: 'Perhaps your travels seem interesting to you, but to others...'

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Eric Wayne Dickey: Two Poems

TW Featured Poet

I see my son’s face on a battlefield in the pages on the floor.

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“Wheels Down, Flaps Up” © Sunny Lo; Creative Commons license
A Ring of Feathers

Essay by Beth Richards

As I looked back, they sifted through the air, like ash, and resumed feeding.

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