Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
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My Writing Education: A Time Line
Why do our writing teachers have such a huge impact on us? George Saunders on early lessons learned.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Witness to Other People’s Lives, Not Living My Own
Unhappiness Cloak: An excerpt from “Weird in a World That’s Not,” by Jennifer Romolini.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
My Unsentimental Education
“I wanted him to understand my life—that I’d been caught in the local pattern and found the safest way forward, but if I’d lived somewhere else I’d be someone else and still could.”
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
Reflections of an Accidental Florist
When a painter stumbles into a floral career, she sees the ugly truth behind a colorful, fragrant industry.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
From a Hawk to a Dove
Vietnam Veteran Ray Cocks, who’d eagerly enlisted in 1967, was forever changed by the realities of war.
Posted inFirst Chapters, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
My Parents Said I Bruised Easily
An excerpt from “Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home,” by Jessica Berger Gross.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Whistleblower in the Family
After her father was arrested for fraud, Pearl Abraham began the the slow, painful process of unraveling her Hasidic family ties.
Posted inCurrent Events, Story
A Heart That Watches and Receives
“Please don’t give up on the truth.” A commencement address by author and historian Hampton Sides.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Shot in the Arm
Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma to make rent? A story about debt in the academic world.
