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Books

Book excerpt: ‘I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of...

In 2015, Baltimore had an uprising against police violence much like those occurring around the country this summer. When it happened, we were both...

Words | Week of June 12, 2014

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Thursday, June 12...

Extracting stories from the industries of the American West

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In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...

Textures of youth

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Tina Collen’s story of her relationship with her father is multidimensional. Literally. In her memoir, Storm of the i ($29.95, Art Review Press), Collen tells the trials and tribulations and successes of her life via paintings, photographs, memorabilia. Instead of ...

Unearthing what’s beneath

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When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.  Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...

Native noir

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Indigenous art is finally having its long-overdue moment in American culture. From TV shows Reservation Dogs and Dark Winds with predominantly Native American casts,...

The evolution of Dan Savage

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It’s a funny story, how the wiseass gay theater kid at the video store became America’s most trusted and outspoken sex advocate...

Homero Aridjis on environmentalism in Mexico

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A statement from poet Homero Aridjis on the dangers of environmentalism in Mexico...

Words | Week of April 24, 2014

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Thursday, April 24...

Poetry

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Unfinished Businessby Diane de Anda...

ASK

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Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking...

Of adverbs and experimentation

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Of course I liked Secrets & Lies, a collection of short fiction written by Josh Gross. I like Josh Gross. We dated in college, hated each other until I was in graduate school, and then became friends. And there’s enough of him in those pages for it to feel, after ...