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What Is It About the Literature of War?

Up until that short story workshop I took my junior year of college, my TBR pile was made up of a bizarre mix of Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, and Bill Bryson. Then my professor passed around...

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A Gathering of Particulars: On Building a Word-Hoard

It is fitting that the bowerbird roosts in the opening lines of Ted Hughes’s poem “A Literary Life,” for there is perhaps no better mascot for reader and writer both. The species is a known collector,...

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Field Goals

CC image “Football Field” courtesy of Daniel X. O’Neil on Flickr August in the U.S. means football. It suffocates bar-stool conversation, seeps into family gossip. The whole business is as inextricable...

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