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How much does SEX OF THE MIDWEST cost in kroners and other things you think about while waiting for your book to publish
Let’s just begin by admitting that when you have a book coming out in a little over a month, you’re likely to spend some time googling that book’s…
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Maybe I will not crawl into a hole into the ground and live there after all
Chunks O' Goodness #2
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Publishing still is not a meritocracy
Even when you have some success
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I hate this about us
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What if Van Gogh wasn't actually talented?
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This is not a post about Glennon Doyle
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Does everyone hate their jobs now?
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Small Press Book Reviews

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On zombies and racial reconciliation
A review of Percival Everett's novel, The Trees
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Rowing upstream together with Galiot Press
An interview with small press founders Anjali Duva and Henriette Lazaridis and how they're trying to create a better way to do publishing
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Stoic hopelessness and small cruelties
A review of Barbara Shoup’s About Grace from Querencia Press
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My deep-dive obsession with Van Gogh

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Painting people is hard
And so is writing them
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Sometimes we have to break the world into the smallest possible bits in order to really see it
Van Gogh's perspective frame and writing a novel (or not) and other stuff
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Would Van Gogh have hated Mother's Day, too?
Part 3 in my obsessive deep dive into Vincent Van Gogh. Yes, it's still really all about me.
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Forever First-Year

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You Think Too Much
You Think Too Much
Some mindfulness. Some notes about the writing life. Some reflections on higher education and teaching. All with a light sprinkling of sociology.
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