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Eric Puchner in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/ast...

“I yearn for the blueprint, but there is no blueprint. If there were a blueprint, an MFA would be a law degree.”
Loved Sidik Fofana’s craft essay “Stumbling Along” in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/stu...

“Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.

“But what comes after finality? Is anything capable of following it?”
— Yiyun Li in the
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Notes on Bed Rest I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me?

Notes on Bed Rest www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Teaching students how to use AI responsibly Effectively teaching students how to employ AI in their writing assignments requires clear guidelines—and detailed, case-specific examples.

“If you want to lift a heavy barbell, you can either bench press it or use a forklift. But if you want to build physical strength, you must lift the barbell yourself. Your brain is no different.” Loved this in @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Guitar Tooth The thought of her disapproval frightens me because it will confirm a newly acquired fear that maybe I have bad taste, that maybe I have nothing interesting to say at all.

Shaming myself by posting old essays on substack

“Sometimes it feels as though I pay my therapist so that I can ask her What does that even mean? over and over again.”

Reading excerpted @zoewhittall.bsky.social in Brick.

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Kathleen Keenan’s Solstice in @thenewquarterly.bsky.social is exactly what I needed on this rainy day.

“You think that’s just how it works, life providing you with abundance, but it isn’t. Oh, it isn’t at all.”

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“How much, if at all, can an image be manipulated and still be considered documentation?”

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

“Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.”

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...