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Where Reasons End

Reviewed by Richard Cho

Where would reasons end? The Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said in an interview: "I don't think reason has anything to do with parent-children relationships, not at all.

The White Boy Shuffle

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

Paul Beatty’s debut novel takes no prisoners with his irreverent, unapologetic tale about Gunnar Kaufman, a young, teenage black surfer relocated from predominantly white Santa

White Rage

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

Built on a mountain of historical insight and irrefutable evidence, White Rage provides a damning indictment of the United States’ purported progress toward a desegregated,

Last Night in Granada

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

“The magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with duende.” The narrative in Chris Pellizzarri’s novella, Last Night in Granada, moves along memory corridors that

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Reyna Marder Gentin

Reyna Marder Gentin, writer and author of “Unreasonable Doubts”

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, writer and author of “White Dancing Elephants”

Renee Hodges

Renee Hodges, author of the memoir “Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community”

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Leading from the Roots

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World is a transformative book in the field of organizational leadership. In the Introduction and the following eleven chapters, ...

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

White Dancing Elephants is a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, ...

A Crack in Creation

Reviewed by James Strick

The reader who follows recent developments in genetics may often experience a feeling of vertigo. Consider as just one example the intellectually dizzying prospect on evolution opened by recent work ...

Essay

journey of a novel essay by Piper Templeton

The Journey of a Novel

By Piper Templeton

After taking a couple of non-credit creative writing classes at our local university in the early 2000s, some fellow students and I formed a critique group. We got together every other Thursday night, critiquing one another’s works in progress. I cherish those times and often think about them. While I had always loved to write, this was the first

Reading is Personal

By Glenn Schiffman

My mother taught me to read simple sentences by the time I was three. And from then on I was required to read a book a week, any book but it had to be challenging, until about the 7th grade. When I started getting homework, my mother stopped giving me hers. I read Huckleberry Finn at least twice when I was eight. That book had a profound influence

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar: a reading list from a new, powerful voice in fiction

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a new voice in fiction with the recent publication of her debut…

Essay

1984 - Has Orwell's World Arrived?

1984 – Has Orwell’s World Arrived?

By Leilani Squire

When I was fourteen or fifteen, a group of classmates and I read four books within a few months: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies. Our young minds were seeking, exploring, and ...

Interviews

Great Blue Heron

Steve Jones on Nature’s Inspiration in Leadership and Life

Now 44 years beyond his bachelor's degree in forestry, Steve is devoting his life to championing the cause of Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading. Steve founded the Nature Based Leadership Institute ...

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The novella is typically between twenty to forty thousand words, longer than a short story, shorter than a novel, and in the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, “long enough for a reader to inhabit a ...

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