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Celebrate the Author: Gene Zion
Recognize this guy? He’s a white dog with black spots who likes everything except getting a bath. So begins the adventure of Gene Zion’s Harry the Dirty Dog(1956), one of the handful of…
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Revisiting ‘Wise Blood’
My task, which I am trying to achieve, is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.…
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Writing about books: 25 prompts
I’ve been trying to brainstorm some writing prompts to help me engage with my reading without falling into ruts or formulas. In fact, I think I’m going to do away with “book reviews” altogether, and…
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To be Told: Thoughts on “co-authorship”
Everyone has a story. Put another way, everyone’s life is a story. But most people don’t know how to read their life in a way that reveals their story… It is the force…