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Surviving the Curse of “Nowville”

…York or Los Angeles!” And feeding into that, there were all those articles in national publications that we liked to nitpick and roll our eyes at. But when a city…

Another Way to Be

…the ideal is always unattainable. What we can do, though, is rethink traditional gender roles so that we inch closer to a world in which men feel free to be…

The Past Is Never Dead

…in Oxford, including William Styron, Alex Haley, Jim Harrison, George Plimpton, James Dickey, and David Halberstam. “All writers begin as book fiends, eggheads, and smart-alecks,” Wells writes of Barry Hannah….

A Glorious and Invisible Map

…other, with a historic square, shops “that hang flowering baskets,” a Catholic high school, an upcoming festival, and a grocery store. In this grocery appears, almost as if by magic,…

Following the Story Wherever It Goes

If you think making Caldecott history — being one of only two artists to win the Caldecott Medal three times, in addition to winning three Caldecott Honors — would have…

The Singing Wire Between Joy and Grief

…a cast of what Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor called “grotesques”: misshapen people with wonderfully alliterative names like Mack Morris Murray, Libby Belcher, Paula Purgason, Mal Morris, and Hellbent Heidi…

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