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Alt-weeklies, Prose Poems, Heroes: An Interview With Brandon Soderberg

ByPatrice Hutton January 15, 2017

2017 came, and I was in the market for words to live by. I needed a mantra to get me through the month of January. Miraculously, I found them four days into the new year: “We’re all special once we get to know each other.”

I found these words in “heroes” by Brandon Soderberg, Baltimore City Paper’s Deputy Editor and Arts Editor. The words came after a description of a Baltimore seven-year-old who was shot and killed last year.

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The Bookshelves of Others

ByNikkitha Bakshani January 14, 2017

I remember the bookshelf of my childhood home as very imposing and very maroon. It had the entire leather-bound World Book Encyclopedia collection, and I spent many afternoons cross-legged with one of the heavy volumes on my lap, reading entries on “China” or “homeostasis.”

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The Readers: Gabrielle Bellot and Writing Beyond the Binary

ByJeremiah Moriarty January 12, 2017

Bellot seems keenly interested in the power of stories, in the way that history is a story so frequently retold that it assumes the impunity of fact, and the way that time’s linearity—in social progress and our individual experiences—is sometimes as constructed as anything else.

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Keeping the Faith: How Anne Lamott Can Save Your Life

ByYardenne Greenspan January 12, 2017

Last summer, when my baby was four months old, we traveled to Israel to visit our families. My husband and I had been moving around the East Coast for several years–from Princeton to Brooklyn just before our trip. We were still figuring out our son’s schedule, nutritional needs, likes and dislikes.

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The Limits and Freedoms of Literary Regionalism: John Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley

ByEvan Nicole Brown January 11, 2017

Known for his simplistically powerful writing style, Steinbeck is perhaps known even more widely for his commitment to his hometown of Salinas, California. With this in mind, Steinbeck’s first short story cycle, The Pastures of Heaven, is an ideal entry point, as it is an early example of his interest in diverse characters and events occupying a shared space.

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Bhanu Kapil: Hybridity and Disembodiment

BySue Rainsford January 11, 2017

Bhanu Kapil is a British-Indian writer concerned with migration, transformation, loss, and the hybrid text. In her slim, subversive books she considers bodies “at the limit of their particular life,” and the embodied prose she fashions to depict them are strange, broken, and revelatory.

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Ethnographic Writing and Poetic Discipline

ByMishka Hoosen January 10, 2017

One of the most important parts of my education, both as a writer and a human being, has been studying anthropology–and in particular, learning to write ethnographically.

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Empowerment can start in the kitchen: Eudora Welty’s DELTA WEDDING and THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER

ByEllen O'Connell Whittet January 10, 2017

By focusing on women in a kitchen, Welty seems to shrug the mantles that keep her marginalized—regional and gendered—subverting expectations for canonical American literature as public or inhabited by important men.

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Round-Up: Print Sales on the Rise, Trayvon Martin, and Amazon Books

ByErin Jones January 10, 2017

From an increase in print sales to a book about Trayvon Martin, here’s the latest literary news.

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Alt-weeklies, Prose Poems, Heroes: An Interview With Brandon Soderberg

The Bookshelves of Others

The Readers: Gabrielle Bellot and Writing Beyond the Binary

Keeping the Faith: How Anne Lamott Can Save Your Life

The Limits and Freedoms of Literary Regionalism: John Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley

Bhanu Kapil: Hybridity and Disembodiment

Ethnographic Writing and Poetic Discipline

Empowerment can start in the kitchen: Eudora Welty’s DELTA WEDDING and THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER

Round-Up: Print Sales on the Rise, Trayvon Martin, and Amazon Books

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