Somebody let me write about Coach Walz as Im a former college football player. PLEASE. PLEASE. Let me write about lessons football can teach us about democracy and why we need a coach now. PLEASE HAAAAAA
Grateful for this chance to go deep - thinking about what it meant to be seen into by the iconic Fanny Howe, what we writers can mean to each other, and how doing right isn’t the same as being good.
"In the final workshop of my graduate program, I was called out in class by Fanny Howe.... It’s taken 20 years, but I think I’m ready to learn what she was teaching me."
Read @LauraRCronk's essay "Courage & Candor" in the magazine: https://t.co/PaK1IpJgYB
We are excited to be back at AWP this year! Join us for our panel "Reimagining the Writer's Workshop," featuring @LauraRCronk, Mira Jacob, @jmaebarizo, and @brandoskyhorse
Learn more at: https://t.co/OtYidm4TBC 💫
look surely when I die there will be at least a couple people who are like “man that guy fucking SUCKED” but one does hope to lead a life where the end result is just a few disparate background singers joining in on that tune and not an entire, massive, collective choir
Some promising news: Just spoke to editor David Remnick, who told me that, according to two Israeli military officials, the poet Mosab Abu Toha, who lives with his family in Gaza, has been released.
@stewartdantec@washingtonpost “What was I here to do? Oh, yes, I’m here to write. To build a house sentence by sentence, in such a way that people can enter and dwell in it.” Love this and the whole essay 🌟