Part pep talk, part therapy-session, part tough-love: real talk in 500 words.
Stuff I like (all)
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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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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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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...”