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Sarah Miller
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Aug 1, 2017
A Sestina Written In The Same Amount Of Time It Takes David Brooks To Write His Column
(Fifteen minutes.)
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Angelica Frey
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Jul 10, 2017
From The Archives: The Freelantzovitz Files
A ‘Vanity Fair’ column lampooning late-nineties freelance…
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Kelsey Osgood
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Jul 5, 2017
When There’s Nothing Left To Burn, You Have To Set Your Work On Fire
Burn, Baby, Burn
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Ben Dolnick
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Jun 20, 2017
Everything I Know About Storytelling I Learned From The BBC’s “Planet Earth II”
My guru, my iguana.
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Silvia Killingsworth
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Jun 12, 2017
Democracy Dies In Mango
Trader Joe’s “Fearless Flyer,” June 2017
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Rosalie Chan
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Jun 12, 2017
Omniscient Narrator Voices I Have Coveted
From Lemony Snicket to Agatha Christie
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JIM BEHRLE
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Jun 12, 2017
Having Writer’s Block is Way More Fun Than Actually Writing
And other answers to questions you didn’t…
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Amy Kurzweil
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May 25, 2017
Grading (A)lternatives
For when a regular A just won’t do.
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James Nikopoulos
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May 24, 2017
Dear Highly Successful People: Stop Talking About Your Failures
Failure is a luxury.
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Nicole Dieker
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May 23, 2017
Never Write a Novel With an En-dash in the Title
Lessons from a literary debut.
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