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The Millions

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A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki

Dec 2, 2017

The last couple of months or so, I’ve taken a break from the Internet—or as much as I’m able to. Writing this piece feels a bit like yelling to you from across an enormous canyon filled with photos of latte art and babies and feminist slogans etched across coffee mugs in millennial pink. There is … The post A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki appeared first on The Millions.

The Texas Observer

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In Early Fall

Sep 1, 2020

The angle is just right. The midmorning light makes the windows shine from across the street and brightens the curves of bottles on the shelves. We are still new-enough awakened from darkness that we are relieved to realize the growing warmth, the wa

After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy

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Yellow Is the Color of Choices

Dec 10, 2023

For whatever reason, when she sees me each weekend, Megan still hugs me like when she was five. Her skinny arms wrap around my waist, and her eyes squeeze tight like she’s absorbing me into her skin. This is both heartening and heart-wrenching. I wan

The Christian Science Monitor

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3 Wonderful Middle-grade Novels For Fall

Nov 5, 2018

Intriguing protagonists, lively cultural mixes, and sensitive writing make these books winners.

The Millions

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Displaced and Replaced Sisters: On Leslie Pietrzyk’s ‘Silver Girl’

Mar 5, 2018

If, like me, you are a reader who wants to turn and run whenever the phrase “coming-of-age novel” appears in conversation or in a blurb, it may seem that a book about two young women attending college in the early 1980s is not for you. But if you seek to understand how American consumerism became … The post Displaced and Replaced Sisters: On Leslie Pietrzyk’s ‘Silver Girl’ appeared first on The Millions.

The American Poetry Review

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Three Poems

Jul 1, 2020

Who decides where a river starts? When are there enoughsources, strong currents and water wide enough for its name? In Colorado, the Chama begins in smaller creeks and streams,flows into New Mexico to form the Rio Grande, splitting Texas and Mexico (

New Zealand Listener

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Using His Noodle

Mar 25, 2024

by Romesh Dissanayake (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35) When his mother finally dies after a period of sickness, Romesh Dissanayake’s narrator searches for answers by starting a noodle shop. Admittedly leaning into the “food-loving immigrant

Dumbo Feather

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This Error Is The Sign Of Love

Sep 4, 2020

This error is the sign of love,the crack in the ice where the otters breathe,the tear that saves a man from power,the puff of smoke blown down the chimney one morning,and the widower sighs and gives up his loneliness,the lines transposed in the will

NPR

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For July, 3 Romantic Reads That Prove Summer Is For Lovers

Jul 8, 2018

Whether you like high-powered lawyers, ambitious politicians or petticoat-wearing paleontologists, July brings a bumper crop of romance novels, for all your happy-ever-after needs.

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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Snow Angel Mittens

Nov 1, 2021

THE WINTER OF 1933. Some remember that time as the depths of the Great Depression. But I remember it for something else. Life, as we knew it, had ground to a halt in our small town in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. When the bank failed,

The American Scholar

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Four Poems

Jun 3, 2019

A fancy for high green hills by a sea, baggy spacesin the day, a knack for gunpowder thinking,a library humming like a swarm of gnats; the intrigue of a woman with a pitch-perfect mind,blinking eyes whose silence is ancient and naked,a grave that is