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by Nace Phlaux
Wyoming is a poor state that exports talent. Will that ever change? Nathan Martin | High Country News “(Wyoming is) a poor, friendly, hard-working state that exports everything, especially talent. The state leaks brain power like thin tea through a colander.” Read more: https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.5/young-wyomingites-swim-against-the-current 10+ Witty Webcomics You Should Read to Brighten Your Day Emma …
by Nace Phlaux
“Authors, as role models, can be transformative”: Pop Up Projects on engaging kids with books Molly Flatt | The Bookseller Children are not, should not have to be and perhaps never were passive listeners, sitting quietly while the novelist reads at them. This is a noisy, intertextual world, and at Pop Up we encourage children …
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Egyptian writers use history to highlight the present Muhammed Magdy | Al-Monitor Abdulatif, 39, who wrote “Hossn al-Turab” (“The Earthen Fortress”), is already known in the literary world as a prominent Spanish translator. He said that working as a translator had enabled him to learn new skills that helped him as a writer. “I am first …
by Nace Phlaux
A major paradox Megha Parwani | The Stanford Daily Yet I myself sometimes joke about how I’d never be an English major because I want to have a job in the future. I know this brand of humor is misguided, if it can be called humor at all, and probably a defense mechanism too. After …
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by Nace Phlaux
Author Kelly Barnhill conjures the macabre and the Midwestern in her latest work Erica Rivera | City Pages A widow takes up with Sasquatch in lieu of human suitors. A divorced mother of two is killed and dismembered during a run and the prime suspect is her ex-husband’s second (and very pregnant) wife. A young …
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