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29/04/2025

New! What’s Your Emergency?

Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, was a medical laboratory technician in the Air Force and elsewhere (most recently, during COVID). She’s the author of seven collections: Oh Baby, Pretty, Pistol, Veer, Shot Girls, Wetsuit....

28/04/2025

Kay Cosgrove is the author of Anybody Home?

Kay Cosgrove is the author of Anybody Home? (Blue Edge Books 2023). She received a BA from Fairfield University, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston....

26/04/2025

Next Stop: “It’s an express,” my father says with a touch of awe. “Much nicer than the train I took when I made The Trip. You’ll be comfortable, they treat you well on rides like this. It’s not an ordinary trip, you know. Just follow the rules and stay the course....” Daren Schuettpelz

“It’s an express,” my father says with a touch of awe. “Much nicer than the train I took when I made The Trip. You’ll be comfortable, they treat you well on rides like this. It’s not an ordinary trip, you know. Just follow the rules and stay the course....”

23/04/2025

Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes by Michael Martone

Enjoying Michael Martone's Table Talk & Second Thoughts (2025), a delightful memoir in flashes released from Cornerstone Press. The opening piece, "Trains: Tuscaloosa, 2010," recounts a moment that Martone shared with Adrienne Rich two years before her death: "She asked about the train trestle she'd seen crossing the Black Warrior River. I told her that the L&N, the GM&O, and the Southern all had depots here...." by Rae Cline https://www.eckleburg.org/table-talk-second-thoughts-a-memoir-in-flashes-by-michael-martone

21/04/2025

[Home is not the root of human]

Emma Goldman-Sherman's plays have been produced on 4 continents and include Abraham's Daughters which is available as a podcast at TheParsnipShip.com....

14/04/2025

Rebecca from the Bible Visits Anne Sexton One Less Welcome Morning

Emma Goldman-Sherman's plays have been produced on 4 continents and include Abraham's Daughters which is available as a podcast at TheParsnipShip.com....

11/04/2025

On April 11, Broadway stars will flip the ceremonial switch to light the Empire State Building in green, so keep an eye out for the glowing light in the sky, just like Jay Gatsby would have.

This celebration is part of many more Gatsby-themed events across NYC this month that celebrate Fitzgerald's landmark novel published on April 10, 1925.

Read more: https://timeoutnewyork.visitlink.me/VcLyq3

10/04/2025

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby” turns 100 today. In a winking 1926 Profile, John C. Mosher travelled to the Riviera to catch up with the author, who described himself as “one of the most notorious drinkers of the younger generation.” “The popular picture of a blond boy scribbling off best sellers in odd moments between parties is nonsense,” Mosher wrote. “He’s a very grave, hardworking man, and shows it. In fact there is definitely the touch of the melancholy often obvious upon him.” Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ymyNmu

09/04/2025

Ruth Ann Dandrea spent more than thirty years teaching high school kids to believe this truth: “Sometimes you need a story more than food to stay alive” (Badger in Barry Lopez’s Crow and Weasel).

Ruth Ann Dandrea spent more than thirty years teaching high school kids to believe this truth: “Sometimes you need a story more than food to stay alive” (Badger in Barry Lopez’s Crow and Weasel). Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in literary magazines....