Category: Articles

The True Story

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The True Story

A critical view of the popular “nonfiction” essay type, magazines and places where it appears, and the book version known as the long walk.

Flash Fiction

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Flash Fiction

What is flash fiction? A brief history and guide to current trends.

Mississippi Prisoners Tell Their Stories

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Mississippi Prisoners Tell Their Stories

A review of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison.

Searching for the Dark Other Side: A Review of Lindsay Hill’s Tidal Lock

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Searching for the Dark Other Side: A Review of Lindsay Hill’s Tidal Lock

A book review of Lindsay Hill’s new novel “Tidal Lock” from McPherson & Company, published November 2024.

The Lucky Chops

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The Lucky Chops

The Lucky Chops is a unique brass band. They play funky jazz/rock tunes and often play the New York subway platforms.

Review: Endearing Species

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Review: Endearing Species

The fiction starts with the citation of reasons for the migration of the Nepali speaking people from the Plain areas to the hilly ones.

The Pulitzer Prize Winner

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The Pulitzer Prize Winner

A review of the two memoirs by Frank McCourt; “Angela’s Ashes” and “Tis.” These were moving accounts of his upbringing in Limerick, Ireland.

Sex, Fascism, and So Forth

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Sex, Fascism, and So Forth

A book review of Master Lovers from the small press Outpost 19 in San Francisco.

Modernist Poetry

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Modernist Poetry

Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.

Profiles in Honesty

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Profiles in Honesty

A book review of Writers and Missionaries, by Adam Shatz.

Not my circus, not my monkeys  

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Not my circus, not my monkeys  

Visiting the fascinating world of idioms and expressions and how they convey dozens of cultural subtleties and concepts.

A freelance journalist’s take on transitioning to dystopian fiction writing

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A freelance journalist’s take on transitioning to dystopian fiction writing

The dystopian genre has produced some of history’s most iconic books, like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World…

The Whole Wide World

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The Whole Wide World

A review of The Whole Wide World. I was surprised that my sister did not like it all, so I tried to examine why it impacted me so much.

House of Hunger/Book Review

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House of Hunger/Book Review

Lexi Kent-Monning’s book review of House of Hunger by Uzodinma Okehi.

Stories from the Darp

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Stories from the Darp

A review of Pinching Zwieback, stories by Mitchell Toews.

From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope

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From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope

This is a review of Mehreen Ahmed’s novel, Incandescence published by Impspired Magazine, UK and written by Chitra Gopalakrishnan.

The Corner Store

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The Corner Store

A local landmark, a collection of antique merchandising gear, and what Tuffer Gibson calls his baby, that’s the Corner Store.