A love letter to the musician with a clear country voice.
2017
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Ushering My Father to a (Mostly) Good Death
A personal essay in which Karen Brown recalls conspiring with her father in his final weeks to find some humor in the pain.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door
The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.
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A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major
While Seo-Young Chu earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University, an English professor sexually harassed and raped her. In this searing, formally inventive essay, Chu processes her traumatic experience and recovery in the poetic and academic forms she learned at Stanford, and she refuses to be silent.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments
“For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Joan Didion and the Nature of Narrative
Assessing Joan Didion’s legacy reveals a fascination with the nature of narrative that often supersedes the author’s subjects.
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The Picture in Her Mind
After an unauthorized Joan Didion biography came out, followed by the Didion documentary The Center Will Not Hold, people have started assessing Didion’s legacy and the author’s fascination with storytelling itself.
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How the Sandwich Consumed Britain
To perfect a culinary staple as ubiquitous and timeless as the sandwich “is a question of using tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Will Podcasts and Video Journalism Make Our Syntax Less Rich?
The days of the long, sinuous, multi-clause sentence might be numbered.
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Finding My Way into a New Form: An Interview with Teju Cole
Steve Paulson interviews Teju Cole about why he left Twitter, his photographic inspirations, how he delights in the beauty of sentence fragments, and his meditative approach to combining text and photography in his book, Blind Spot.