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Gold Dance (episode #1573)

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 12, 2021 · Add Comment

Low Sick

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 10, 2021 · Add Comment

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A Too-True Comment On A Writer’s Endless Tweaking

Posted by Grant Barrett on March 22, 2021 · Add Comment

A tweet from novelist Megan Collins, author of Behind the Red Door (Bookshop|Amazon) and The Winter Sister (Bookshop|Amazon), is one every writer will appreciate. This is part of a complete episode.
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Lapidary Prose from Barry Lopez

Posted by Grant Barrett on February 20, 2021 · Add Comment

Barry Lopez was the author of Arctic Dreams (Bookshop|Amazon),winner of the National Book Award, and the editor, along with his wife Debra Gwartney, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (Bookshop|Amazon). In the introduction to his memoir, About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (Bookshop|Amazon), he offered wise advice about how to [...]
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“The End of Everything,” by Katie Mack

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 5, 2020 · Add Comment

Martha recommends The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) (Bookshop|Amazon) by Katie Mack, an assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State University. It’s a challenging read, but accessible enough to lay readers to provide a mind-stretching perspective on life, the universe, and everything. (Check out Mack’s moving poem and video “Disorientation.”) Grant passes along a [...]
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Corotle, A Virgin Islands Word

Posted by Grant Barrett on October 10, 2020 · Add Comment

Duane, who lives in New York City, says that his parents who are from the U.S. Virgin Islands use the term corotole to mean “clutter.” This term appears in The Virgin Islands Dictionary by Kareem Nelson-Hull (Bookshop|Amazon). It also appears in the online Crucian Dictionary by Robin Stearns, who spells is corotle. The Dictionary of [...]
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