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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
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Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
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