Monday, March 6, 2017

PREDATOR VS AWP / Ander Monson on the Imagination of Predator

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(This essay, like the others published this week, was originally presented as part of the AWP 2017 panel “Imagining the Essay” with Rebecca ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

V. V. Ganeshananthan: On Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Li’s “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”

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Excerpted from How We Speak to One Another , an Essay Daily anthology of essayists in conversation. I am guilty of what many people would ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Will Slattery: On Memorials

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I fear I may here reveal myself as a uselessly young essayist, as the sort of person in possession of a great number of words but rather lit...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Rebecca McClanahan's Selected List of Literary Gear Shift Moves

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In her talk on Imagination and the Essay at AWP 2017, Rebecca McClanahan mentioned that she has a list of 72 (as I wrote it down) moves in c...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Int'l Essayists: Toni Nealie on migration and cultural echoes

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My Country, My Land Before I could consider myself an American resident writer , I swam in an alphabet of visas and titles, alien , t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Elizabeth Dylan Bercovici: A Walk Through Boston

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The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a ...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

Paul Haney: On Truth and Perception: The Travel Writer’s Dilemma

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Two Septembers ago, Steven Pinker delivered a presentation from his book, The Sense of Style, at Emerson College in Boston. A grad student ...