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The Dutch House
When I was young, my family lived with my grandmother for a time in Washington, D.C. , in one of ...
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Free Summer Writing Camp
I have been, like all of us, desperate to make a difference, escape isolation, connect during this time of coronavirus ...
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Summer Writers Plan
Dear Kitchen Table Writers, Below is a list of summer reading I plan to do -- and I recommend for ...
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Joni Mitchell’s Blues
I was at an Arists’ Residency, far from home, and things weren’t going well. There was lots of chatter about ...
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A Field, A Quilt, A Novel
Thomas Wolfe wrote, "a stone, a leaf, A door” in his seminal novel Look Homeward, Angel. I was inspired in part ...
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Hemingway in Pittsboro
I used to think that as a writer I had to hole up in my little room and write and ...
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