Silvina Ocampo. Photo: Adolfo Bioy Casares. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I love a good hundred-page novel. Too many books go for quantity over quality,…
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Friday Fund Day: Drop Some Dollars and Help Some Classrooms
With the world being a difficult place for those of any marginalized background, one of the things those of us who are looking to do…
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A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
Larissa Pham’s column, Devil in the Details, takes a tight lens on single elements of a work, tracing them throughout art history. It paid $12.50…
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Staff Picks: Tigers, Transliteration, and Truth
Zeb Bangash performing on Coke Studio. Photo courtesy of Coke Studio Pakistan. There are many things I love about Coke Studio. One of them is…
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Britain’s Gorgeous Country House Libraries: Critical Linking, October 24, 2019
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by There You Are by Mathea Morais, from…
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MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND GODS – Terrible Writing Advice
Big thanks to Skillshare for kick starting the sponsorship wars! Thank them by clicking here: https://skl.sh/twa12 In the beginning, the author created the world and…
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Meet Joe Bunting, the Founder of the Write Practice
Hey there. It’s me, Joe Bunting. Maybe you’ve seen my name around here. Maybe you haven’t (which is fine). I thought I’d take a second…
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Staff Picks: Whales, Waitresses, and Winogrand
Leslie Jamison. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan. Earlier this week I had the rare and enviable—if slightly inconvenient—experience of missing a subway stop because I was so…
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Staff Picks: Ballet, Bob Dylan, and Black Smudges
Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Photo: Erik Tanner. The legendary profiler Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, lives up to the hype. In it, the hardworking…
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Vote for the Winner of the Summer Writing Contest
Last week, hundreds of writers submitted their stories to the Summer Writing Contest. I’ve so enjoyed seeing how these stories have developed. Our contest Facebook group…
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