I’ve screwed up so many Manuscript Mart meetings at GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace conference, I’ve been through Hell. I have been disconsolate, heard Satan’s calumnies, been scorched by the Inferno’s great heat. Speaking of Inferno, Dante’s nine circles of Hell is a useful, albeit morbid, way to frame my venial sins and how to improve—for the blessed day I…
Cameron Dryden and Sea Stachura are two writers, he African American, she Caucasian. This past summer they read two books that markedly changed their understanding of the racial American experience: Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter and White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People…
By now, you probably know that unicorns and Santa Claus aren’t real, but wouldn’t it be great if they were? The human mind loves to believe in the unusual and unlikely. Some still believe that the crop circles of the 1990s were made by extra-terrestrials, even though the pranksters who made them have long since…
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