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Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Was a Storm of Confetti’: Michael Pollan On Why It’s a Good Idea To Lose Your Self
Michael Pollan talks about using psychedelic drugs, escaping his own ego, and the therapeutic potential of seeing yourself spread out over the landscape like a coat of paint.
Posted inNonfiction
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 inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Trip to Tolstoy Farm
Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Road to Asylum
Trans women migrate to escape violence and stay alive. Alice Driver accompanied one of these women on her journey.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Dying Days of the New West
Recent books about the American West turn the old frontier myth into a mirage.
Posted inBlog Post, Science & Nature
What Makes a Disability Undesirable?
Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?
Posted inFiction, Reading List
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2018
Must-read stories from Han Kang, Porochista Khakpour, and Min Jin Lee.
Posted inUncategorized
Was It a Story of Love or Exploitation? It Was Both, and More
Alex Tizon’s account of his family’s slave left readers frustrated with the ambiguities of memoir, journalism, and storytelling.
Posted inUncategorized
Donald Trump’s War With the Past
The president willfully ignores, rewrites, or rejects history just as we have begun to truly interrogate the trauma of the Civil War.
