Meet Elizabeth Ebert, the “Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry.”
Pam Mandel
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The Trump Story Project
Slate is running short stories by contemporary writers based in an imagined “Trump’s America.”
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The Messy Divides in Travel Writing
“Where do we draw the line between writing about ‘travel’ and writing about ‘place’?”
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The Case for Dungeons & Dragons
I was never a Dungeons and Dragons person, but as a nerd, seems like they’ve always been nearby. I would not have expected a Venn diagram overlapping the D&D nerds I know — delightful, gentle weirdos who like elves and other imaginary creatures — with high security prisoners. Elisabeth de Cleer wrote about one such […]
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Apocalypse Shopping List: Guns, Motorcycles, and… Bitcoin?
“I’ll be candid: I’m stockpiling now on real estate to generate passive income.”
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My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016
In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]
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My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016
In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]