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The Ghost Writes Back

Amy Boesky There was nothing surprising about my professor’s lecture on Shakespeare until, out of the blue, she started talking about ghostwriting. I was in the back of the packed auditorium…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5178 words)

The Fourth State of Matter

The collie wakes me up about three times a night, summoning me from a great distance as I row my boat through a dim, complicated dream. She’s on the shoreline, barking. Wake up. She’s…
PUBLISHED: June 24, 1996
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7194 words)

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Write what you love. I love stalking folk singers, television, Virginia Woolf, Sweet Valley High, awkward moments, and liminal spaces. For more, visit www.amywhipple.com Questions? Archive RSS

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Delta blues is as much legend as it is music. In the popular telling, blues articulated the hopelessness and poverty of an isolated, oppressed people through music that was disconnected from popular…
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PUBLISHED: April 19, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2144 words)

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longreads: The writer reflects on a 1987 tragedy...

4 notes & April 24, 2012 longreads: The writer reflects on a 1987 tragedy that forever changed the lives of the sisters of Ole Miss’s Chi Omega sorority:  In my mother’s house…

Whitney Houston Opens Up About Her Marriage, the Pressures of Fame and More

February 12, 2012 12:35 AM ET Whitney Houston attends the 13th Annual St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Benefit Gala in 1993. Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage
PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1092 words)

Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'

Maurice Sendak looks like one of his own creations: beady eyes, pointy eyebrows, the odd monsterish tuft of hair and a reputation for fierceness that makes you tip-toe up the path of his…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1951 words)

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