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Another Loose Sally

Yes, Virginia, Thank You.

May 27, 2010

As the end of my first post-MFA year approaches, I consider my frequently frozen fiction muscles and wonder why I keep coming back to the keyboard, fingers stiff, mind blocked. Apparently I don’t need to be successful in producing new material to keep trying. I do need a room of my own, yes, Virginia, thank [...]

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Don’t Tell My Mother

April 20, 2010

What do you do if you want to keep a secret? You blog about it. I found out a couple of weeks ago that one of my best short stories has found an excellent home. After the screaming stopped several musts ran through my mind—must update cover letter, must send out more stories, must tell [...]

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Denver Envy

April 9, 2010

I wish I could stare into the Benign Indifference and think brilliant thoughts, today, maybe even fashion a few pretty sentences. Instead I can’t stop thinking about how some of my favorite people in the world are at the AWP conference right now. And here I sit, stranded in Maine. I should be sitting on [...]

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Wanted: Mentors and Muses. No Monsters Need Apply.

April 2, 2010

A collection of essays by successful writers on the people who inspired and influenced them leaves me wondering: First, what the hell do all these stories have to do with me? And second, why did I ever think they should have anything to do with me? I have been sitting with the book Mentors, Muses [...]

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Celebrating Jealousy

March 15, 2010

Life is short, take it in. The envy, the regret, a shot of bitter—why not enjoy them all? Hunger Mountain’s editor Miciah Gault has wanted to be a writer since she was six years old. “Aww” you just thought, picturing little Miciah scribbling with her hot magenta crayon. Or did you think something more like… [...]

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Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Nap

March 5, 2010

Patrick Henry had to be brave because he was egging on a revolution. I’m just writing for the joy of it, so please—leave me in cowardly peace. I’m thinking a lot about courage. I just endured two weeks of commentators referring to Olympic athletes as courageous. This week I’m reading a biography of George Washington. [...]

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7th Olympics and Still No Medal for Guyton

February 23, 2010

Also no Pulitzer, no Nobel, no bestseller. Not even a MacArthur genius grant. Claire Guyton fell in love with ice dancing in 1984, while watching legendary ice dancers Torvill and Dean deliver the world’s best skate. That routine hadn’t been topped in 26 years of competition. And then Guyton did the impossible, last night, just [...]

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