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Nonfiction
Smokehouse
by Bridget Quinn
I think you’re carrying on to get your brothers in trouble.
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Snapshots of My Brother
by Lynn Ahrens
We’re all trying, in our own ways, to parse what we may have done wrong.
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So You’re Thinking of Getting an MFA . . .
by Tom Jenks
If you’re going to take a degree, take one from the best school you can.
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Solo Notes
by Gail Godwin
This has been a good day. First the milestone of getting to page 300.
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The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Meditation
by Gail Godwin
It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.
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Sparrow
by Maria Hummel
After four years of watching his body implode, we’re terrified.
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Sport
by Karen Peterson
Both dogs were barking now—their barking urgent, hysterically pitched.
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Stitches
by Dani Shapiro
The girl I was could not have imagined the woman I grew up to become.
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Storyteller and Showrunner Clyde Phillips
by Jane Lancellotti
I think of each story as a big circle that’s all around me and I’m in the center.
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Street Haunting: A London Adventure
by Virginia Woolf
No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a pencil.
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Summer Fever
by Mary Gordon
The horror of the waste appalls me. This beauty. This habitation of dream.
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Suspended
by Maggie Panko
For the first two months of class, Toby did barely any writing at all.
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Suspicious Minds
by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
The first time we were alone, I knew it before he even told me.
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Takes Enemy
by Shann Ray
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Takotsubo Syndrome
by Mary Beth Witherup
I thought that proved he blamed me. I thought they all did.
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Target Fixation
by Aleksandra Crapanzano
I grip the handlebar and pin my eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable crash.
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Tell Me the Truth about Love
by Various Authors
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The Best of Death
by Various Authors
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
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Terminal Depression: Is It Just Me?
by Hal Crowther
I want to dispute that depression is by definition pathological.
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That Ain’t Jazz
by David Bradley
They drink hard liquor and growl about which musicians are hot.
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The Aphorisms of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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The Border, the Border
by William Fleeson
Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.
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The Bridge
by Sandra Sidi
“Look down,” I said, comb in hand. “Let me check behind your ears.”
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The Brilliant Present
by Art Hanlon
I was getting a little fogged, but I recognized irony when I heard it.
The Cadence of Lovers
by Peter Grandbois
What better way to capture the cadence of lovers than with repetition?
Nonfiction
The Charms of Murder
by David Thomson
These days murder is as common as love scenes were in the 1930s.
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The Comfort of Crows
by Margaret Renkl
In time the squirrel who was my friend is my friend no longer.
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The Comfort Zone
by Martha Weinman Lear
It was as if my dead husband was flowing within me now, like blood.
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The Curse of the Starving Class
by Fredrik Sjöberg
Ambition and coincidence had led me to the Royal Theatre.
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The Departure
by Monique Clesca
“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.