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Twenty-four hours into a month-long fast from Twitter and Facebook, I’m already reading and writing more intentionally and coherently. (This interesting essay by the software developer Adam Brault gave...
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Recipe box
The after-work freeway backups are beginning to ease, first graders are wailing about the sin of murdering a turkey, and at the grocery store, bottles of Southern Comfort are wedged in beside the...
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In my father’s workshop
This summer, with my dad gone for two years, we’ll be cleaning out my parents’ garage and making it a safe place for the grandchildren to play. The garage holds camping equipment, bicycles, fishing...
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For your Monday-morning blues
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for...
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A miracle of art
In “Out the Window,” an essay in the January 23 New Yorker, Donald Hall reveals that he has let go of writing poetry. This is the quality of prose that remains: As daylight weakens, snow persists. In...
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A sense of place
“Like a lot of young writers, when I started out, I had a dim conception of my material. I wrote about people and places that were vastly separated from those I knew. Then, too, if I tried to write...
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Desert Nights, Rising Stars giveaway
Since we’re still within the twelve days of Christmas, the philanthropists at Hayden’s Ferry Review are still in a generous mood. Through Saturday, January 7, if you know how to retweet, share a post...
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Longform
Amazon may be the devil, but lurking on the Intertubes there are angels, too. Longform is one. Pair it with Instapaper, and you’ll never be bored again.
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In which a would-be writer shares his Christmas list, pilfered from that...
It occurs to me that the world could be divided into those (sheep) who find Chapter 32 of Moby Dick incomprehensible, and those (goats) who find it devilishly majestic and maybe even holy. Call me...
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Jessica Anthony’s Chopsticks
I’ve been intending to write a long post about the decline of the independent bookstore, the deleterious impact of Amazon on state budgets and local community, what the music industry says about the...
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