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Dec 22, 20233 min read
On making the right gesture
On April 22, 1959, the 34-year-old southern novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor visited Vanderbilt University and read her...
Jan 24, 202327 min read
The Trials of the Young: A Semester by MARY GAITSKILL
In 2014 I was hired, for two consecutive spring semesters, to teach writing and literature at one of the officially happiest colleges in...
Dec 16, 202215 min read
My Writing Education: A Time Line by George Saunders
George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...
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