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Lessons From Eight Years of Writing an Adventure Blog

A few minutes later, I dusted off my hands and stood in front of it: the first real desk of my outdoor writing career. I’d been trying to be an adventure writer since 2004, been trying at it full ... ... read more

Jack Monroe, Bootstrap Cook interview - spilling the beans on tins, Twitter and talking about gender

Monroe, who identified as non-binary in 2015, thinks an open debate about gender is important but is also very busy cooking up a storm on the kitchen front “Use ‘she’ for writing ... reading, not cook ... read more

Mary Frances Early: A life of quiet courage and great accomplishment

Morehead said, “Ms. Early has lived a full life of service and ... in her a passion for books and reading. “I was a nerd,” Early said with a laugh. “I loved reading because of my mom. She read newspap... read more

A Day in the Life of an Indie Publisher: Akashic Books

The wind in the trees is talking in tongues…” With this bit of counterintuitive programming, another long day in the life of ... at Akashic Books, it was a precious opportunity to focus on his twin pa... read more

Speaking of the Speaker

WARM-UP/DO NOW: In their journals, students respond to the following questions (written on the board prior to class): Imagine that, ninety years from now, someone is writing about your life ... photog... read more

Strangers in strange lands: Melissa Catanese's "Voyagers"

Perhaps she’s reading nothing more than a textbook of boring equations or facts to be memorized. Perhaps it is a tale of enchanted lands full of heroines ... of people from all walks of life poring ov... read more

Why Most of Your Body Is Younger Than You Are

Your fingernails are also full of keratin, and they roll out of your fingertips ... for a few days or weeks before being recycled and replaced, while others may last a lifetime. How can you tell which ... read more

Lessons Culled From 31 Self-Help Books

Eliminate reading magazines, newspapers, audiobooks, nonfiction books (except for his ... for example, writing a letter to that future you. • See bad dates the way you see bad weather. Natural parts o... read more

Carol Bly, Minnesota's lioness of letters, dies

True to form, Carol Bly stood stalwart against the dying of the light ... Bly, of St. Paul, had a milelong curriculum vitae that reflected a lifetime of writing, teaching, mentoring, editing and pamph... read more

The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Franco Moretti

In fact, “digital humanities” seems astoundingly inappropriate for an area of study that includes, on the one hand, computational research, digital reading and ... a couple of books and had been writi... read more

On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing

Kurt Vonnegut’s caution against the use of semicolons is one of the most famous and canonical pieces of writing advice ... longer needed “Girl,” I stopped reading what I had once declared was the stor... read more

500 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing

Now, five years later, we’ve collected 500 of them that invite narrative and personal writing and pulled them all together in one place (available here as a PDF). The categorized list below touches on ... read more