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12/12/2022

slaying the cruelty of life

Melissa Bank and the Art of Humor

by James Ladd Thomas

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09/01/2022

We Tell Stories in Order to Die

Word to death

by David Stromberg

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08/25/2022

Point of Entry 

Writing workshops in the treehouse

by Leslie Lindsay

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08/22/2022

Solving Stories with Boy Detectives

The timeless adult appeal of the Three Investigators YA series

by Colin Fleming

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06/13/2022

Walking Words, Words Walking

There’s never been a better to read James Joyce’s Ulysses (don’t be scared!)

by Colin Fleming

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05/09/2022

Theft from the Author

Literary pilfering through the ages, from Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy

by Vincent Czyz

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04/12/2022

When Reading in the Dark Turns on the Light

How inscriptions brought Ireland to Indiana

by Kristin Czarnecki

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03/21/2022

May it Be So

Life in poetry

by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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03/07/2022

Clearing Out the Brain Fog

On creativity and restriction

by Anna Gordover

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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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