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Sweet Nothings
When I first started crafting a career for myself as a playwright, I believed fervently that theater could shift people into being better. I’m pretty sure that that was not the right path to follow.
Michael Bettencourt

A Crime With A Name
We are in the presence of a crime without a name... the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world.
Arthur Danin Adler

SOS
While I myself have not had to hurl for a while now since my first trip to the ER back in July, it's a pretty common side effect of chemo. 
Claudine Jones

The Career and Strange Disappearance of Bobbie Gentry
Few artists in country music history have left a mark as deep and enigmatic as Bobbie Gentry. In the late 1960s, she became a sensation with her haunting storytelling. 
Les Marcott

“I have come/not to beg nor barter but to enter.”
In her magnificent new collection, Behold, the arrival of which is cause for great joy, SharaMcCallum again treats some of these themes refracted through different lenses.
Gregory Luce

The Value of Writing
In George Orwell’s essay “Why I Write,” he explored four reasons he hammered away at his Remington typewriter: Sheer egoism; Aesthetic enthusiasm; Historical impulse; Political purpose.
Patrick Walsh

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October 2026

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