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… why the title of the story collection, This Close, did not come from the title of one of the stories? I can tell you a … in a book. It must be much more confusing now, with so many websites and bloggers asking for books. It might be very … I write what I am interested in, and hope it will find an audience. I don’t know that it would make a lot of sense to do …
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… and longing in cowboy country. Shipstead, whose work can also be found in the Mississippi Review, the Missouri … and went to major schools (Harvard and Iowa). How did it come to be that you’ve written about rural, isolated ranch … away from him knowing full well that he was about the die was a very painful experience, especially since I’ve …
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… over a period of six months. The app itself is free and comes stocked with two brief videos as well a prologue to … a lot of buzz lately due to the launch of Kindle Serials. Yes, your app has multimedia/geolocation elements, but … spots; all it takes is one motivated reporter plus an audience of curious readers. So the Midwest can’t get the …
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… Puzzle Alexander Brock: I need some help with an upcoming issue of VQR. ChatGPT: Of course—happy to help. Who … aligned with concepts in psychology, climate studies, and speculative fiction. 2. The future produces … et cetera. And yet, despite being a fiction, it points to something real—me—that can be reached by …
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… change: “When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.” From her reporting on the … Claire Schwartz: According to the poet Marie Howe, who studied with Joseph Brodsky at Columbia, Brodsky said: “You … of Peoples: The Russian people were “first among equals.” (This was ten years before Animal Farm : “All animals …
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… with Jim Coan VQR columnist and neuroscientist Jim Coan’s comic-styled column Drawing It Out asks the human questions … with VQR’s Paul Reyes about defending science while also breaking it out of the priesthood of the academy. VQR: You’re a practicing neuroscientist. Why turn to comics in the middle of all that? Jim Coan: You know, one …