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LitFriends: The Messy Newsletter
LitFriends: What if the World is a Mess Because You've Been Silent? "Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It's confusion." - Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies It is easy to look at the world right now and think: what a mess. The noise...
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it." - David Foster Wallace We weigh risks every day in the words we use. If you're looking for places to publish those words, see the featured calls for submission at the end of this newsletter. I'm feeling...
LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action
LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action "A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood Subscribe to our free LitFriends newsletter and get your free planning sheets for your writing and life projects. Click Here We talk about craft, publication, and practice.Last week, writing...
Latest Book Review Dispatches From AL
Book Review Summary: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’
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Book review of ‘Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel’
Book Review of 'Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel' by Carl Safina Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina, Henry Holt Co., 2015, 480 p. Many scholars from those enrolled in Middle School General Science to PhD professors have been exposed to and likely held the standard that prohibits...
Book review ‘The Genius of Birds’ by Ackerman
Book review 'The Genius of Birds' by Ackerman Prepare to be annoying. Have you ever experienced a friend or family member who kept looking up over a book with did-you-know facts? I was that person when I read the first chapter of Michael Pollan's the Botany of Desire. I had...
Swimming with V.S. Naipaul in ‘An Area of Darkness’
An Area of Darkness I took V.S. Naipaul to the lake with me. I sat in a lawn chair with my feet in the water. The August day was warm, but I had a cool bottle of water and some cherries, cold and hard from the...
Latest Dispatches From AL For Writers
LitFriends: The Messy Newsletter
LitFriends: What if the World is a Mess Because You've Been Silent? "Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It's confusion." - Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies It is easy to look at the world right now and think: what a mess. The noise...
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it." - David Foster Wallace We weigh risks every day in the words we use. If you're looking for places to publish those words, see the featured calls for submission at the end of this newsletter. I'm feeling...
LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action
LitFriends: The Power of Your Words In Action "A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood Subscribe to our free LitFriends newsletter and get your free planning sheets for your writing and life projects. Click Here We talk about craft, publication, and practice.Last week, writing...