Growth advocates in St. George, Utah want a billion-dollar pipeline to support a rising population. Conservationists don’t.
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‘People Can Become Houses’
In her debut memoir, Sarah Broom builds her “obsession” with her family home — destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — into a story of how families decide who they are, how they got here, and how they reconstruct themselves over and over again.
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Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference
The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Burdens We Carry
Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Through a Glass, Tearfully
Maureen Stanton contemplates her history of crying in inappropriate moments, and considers tears from gender-based and political perspectives.
Posted inNonfiction
One Man’s Poison
The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.
Posted inStory
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
Posted inCulture
And What of My Wrath?
Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes, Sports
She’ll Be Everything He Isn’t
An MRI sparked gymnast Selena Brennan’s interest in sports medicine, and Larry Nassar isn’t going to take that away from her.
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The Erotic Thriller’s Little Death
What/If references the celebrated steamy genre of the 80s and 90s, but lacks its guts. Why can’t any of the new neo-noirs go all the way?
