Mark Nepo moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his
#1 New York Timesbestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet,
teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual
guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," a...
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On the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, Jenny
Forrester grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer
proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester’s powerfully eloquent story
reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republica...
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A self-defined misfit makes a powerful case for not fitting in—for
recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path.
A misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or
this: a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and envi...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection
How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money.
Panio’s stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Northwest
Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn Ra...
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VI KHI NAO was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. She is the author most
recently of Umbilical Hospital; the short stories collection, A Brief
Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction
Prize in 2016; the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2...
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The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream
of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental
degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives
in the strange, elemental language which dre...
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Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on
the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having
survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself
hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic ...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a poet, essayist , and master of fantasy
and speculative fiction. In this interview recorded in 2000, she talks about
her start as a writer and the creation of several of her greatest works.
Hosted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolins...
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