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Who’s In Here?
Years ago, when I started getting occasional acceptance letters along with the mountain of rejection letters from journals, I was thrilled. That I’d have readers. That I’d find people with whom to talk about my work. Or that somehow a network or community could be formed this way. But it became clear to me quickly […]
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“In 1956, João Guimarães Rosa published his masterpiece, Grande Sertão: Veredas, in his native Brazil. In 1963, an English translation was published in the United States as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Due to the highly intricate and complex nature of Guimarães Rosa’s linguistic ingenuity, as well as to an inexperience with the […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #2 - Community
Community 1. n. A clean, white lasso. It has red strips at one end, circumscribing the cylinder of knit, marked like a talisman. As in, “You’re thirsty because you’re afraid of your neighbors, and you grew up rich but your parents never let on.” As in, “The thin thing swinging above your head, or the […]