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Useful Things
| In my Creative Writing classes this week, we've been talking about the significant objects that appear in fiction. Odysseus' bow and Penelope's weaving. The golden carousel ring in The Catcher in... |
The Way We Talk
| How do you like these gams, you big palooka? I've always been interested in the ways people speak. This may be because I write, because I'm concerned with the way dialogue works, how it should so... |
Six Years Old Again, at Least for a Moment
| You know how sometimes, when you least expect it, you're powerfully reminded of something from long ago? The trigger can be anything. I remember once seeing a patrol car rush by, red and blue fla... |
Four
| Just like that, she isn't even a toddler anymore. She's four years old.She's learned to pronounce her L's. Yesterday, she swept the kitchen. This morning, she started singing, "Na, na, na, na, n... |
Ay, Haiti
| In Edwidge Danticat's short story, "Children of the Sea," one lover writes to another, the man she fears is dead, saying:"i am writing to you from the bottom of the banyan tree. manman says that b... |
Veggie, Veggie, Fruit, Fruit, Cha-cha-cha
| All my life, I've moaned to anyone who would listen that I can't cook. I can't even count the number of meals I've ruined--dinners oversalted, undercooked, burnt, toasted-when-I-should-have-roast... |
Inventing a New Year: Happy 2010!
| Hoping 2010 is one, ginormous lollipop of a year!What a strange, strange year it's been. On Facebook, all my friends are busy updating their statuses with unusual ire, bidding 2009 a "don't let t... |
Hope You "Lava" This as Much as I Do
| On the cover, Hokusai's "Rainstorm Beneath the Summit." It's a volcano. You "lava" it, too, don't you?Forgive the horrible pun. But I'm just so excited to talk about my first issue as editor of... |
On Christmas Specials
| Of all the wonderful Christmas specials on TV each year, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" has always been my favorite. We watched it last night, and I couldn't believe I remembered the lyrics to... |
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