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Nonfiction

Story of the Week
Instead of attunement, I was given a pair of size 6 Toughskins.
Story of the Week
My sister says, vicious as possible, “Don’t you dare try to protect me.”
Nonfiction
I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.
Nonfiction
The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.
Features
In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.
Features
What can be done to interest a younger audience in fiction?
Features
We lived below the poverty level. I wasn’t allowed to desire objects.
Features
The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.
Features
The main thing a poet tries to do, above all things, is to write a poem.
Features
Revision is not a sanction to get the head and the will involved.
Features
Not a single environmentalist holds out much hope for the future.
Nonfiction
Horses in those days were celebrities in their own right.
Nonfiction
The wine was administered to Theo’s lips, and then the rest of us.
Story of the Week
For Henry Moore there is not only the best day but the worst.
Story of the Week
There was something that eluded me, that was always outside the frame.
Story of the Week
“A book is an ax,” Franz Kafka once said, “for the frozen sea within.”
Spring Contest Winners
Their breath rose in small clouds. Their flag rippled above them.
Interviews
What can go heartbreakingly wrong, and what would you do?
Nonfiction
“We know what can happen,” Mike says. “We choose to do this.”
Story of the Week
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Story of the Week
“I love you” is always a quotation. You did not say it first.
Narrative on the Road
We skip across the surface like a stone slung by a giant travel agent.
Interviews
You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Interviews - Audio/Video
If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.
Interviews
Sex can be revelatory. Essential nature emerges in sex.
Story of the Week
There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue itself.
Features
A letter is like a poem, showing the marks of an unwilling composer.
Story of the Week
He was shirtless and showcasing a large tattoo of the Twin Towers.