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  little birds are leaving the nest: goodbye, treehouse

  About a year and a half ago, I started meeting outside of class with some of my most talented...

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  “Imagine a good gambler who is playing an important poker hand, the way he lays his cards down makes all the difference. With a certain number of...”
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  IN THE HOUSE UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE AND THE WOODS one of PW's Best New Books

  Thanks to Publishers Weekly for listing In the House upon the...

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  “Where are the Christians now?” — fiery words from North Carolina’s Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II on the fight over values in the state’s...

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  10 best best american essays ideas

  Whenever I finish an edition of Best American Essays, the yearly anthology which celebrates the twenty essays...

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  Tomorrow, June 11th, my first novel, Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?, will be one year old. As I approach 200,000 followers on my Tumblr, I want to...

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  thefrogman:

  The Nature of Ambition by Grant Snider [website | tumblr | twitter]

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  Hobart :: "Astronauts" by Dana Diehl

  You read this on Wikipedia: A person can survive in space san-spacesuit for eight seconds. At nine seconds,...

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  “I think my favorite thing in the world is working with magazine editors or book editors, because I think a lot of work gets done at that stage, when...”
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