You Think Too Much

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Notes on the writing life
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The room where it happens
A history and tour of my writing spaces
Nov 7 • 
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I'm not very good at enjoying things
How I'm feeling 2 weeks after the release of SEX OF THE MIDWEST
Oct 30 • 
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Aunt Angie is reading SEX OF THE MIDWEST
Or at the very least it might be on her to-read list
Oct 13 • 
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How we get through
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Cosmic chickens and the calm after the chaos
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I stopped checking my subscriber count...
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What if Van Gogh wasn't actually talented?
Apr 28 • Robyn Ryle
I hate this about us
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This is not a post about Glennon Doyle
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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
Apr 25 • 
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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
Feb 20 • 
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Stoic hopelessness and small cruelties
A review of Barbara Shoup’s About Grace from Querencia Press
Feb 10 • 
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My deep-dive obsession with Van Gogh

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Two writers who started drawing + Vincent Van Gogh (who also sucked at first)
A recording from Robyn Ryle and Kelcey Ervick's live video
Oct 4 • 
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Painting people is hard
And so is writing them
May 26 • 
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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
May 19 • 
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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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Spark
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Elizabeth Marro
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