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A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 99
An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking…
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Reading: “The Dog Star” by Donald Windham
The Dog Star, a novel written by Donald Windham and published in 1950, follows a bleak protagonist through the mid-century Deep South. Blackie Pride is a…
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A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #98
We are teaching writing as literature because literature is central to writing. You may object that the academic expository essay is instrumental and utilitarian, a…
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The Passive Activist 4: Don’t Bag Your Leaves
We Americans are living with an unprecedented absence of leadership. In the Deep South, we have lived with this void for most of our history,…
