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When I jumped back on Twitter during the pandemic years before Elon Musk scared off so many brilliant artists and writers, I heard the daily sour plea of much younger-than-me writers making a big fuss over who was and wasn’t getting published, and they made one thing very clear: they pledged in solitude to never
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I once taught a course called “What’s a Canon?” and for the final assignment, each student created a literary Canon and defended his/her/she/him/them choices. I told them this was a final assignment I had done and never forgotten in an undergrad history course at CUNY Hunter College. In preparation for each class, I printed copies
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We wanted to adopt a shelter dog from a no-kill group in our county. A monthly newsletter came through the email one day with a photo of Sheldon who was listed under a different name. Sheldon is a Golden Labrador Great Pyrenees mix, and his brother, a short haired white, black, and brown spotted puppy
