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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Introducing… The New Ploughshares Blog!
The Ploughshares blog has changed a lot since we first launched it in 2009. Back then, it was mostly a supplement to the magazine—a clearinghouse for announcements, extra contributors’ notes, and all the other little tidbits that wouldn’t fit elsewhere. … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #51: Sacramento, CA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #50: Cleveland, OH
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Story, American Splendor, Andy Borowitz, Brews and Prose, Cleveland, Crooked River Burning, CSU Poetry Center, Dan Chaon, Dave Lucas, Hart Crane, Harvey Pekar, Jean Shepherd, Langston Hughes, Lena Dunham, Literary Boroughs, Mark Winegardner, MFA programs, Northeast Ohio MFA, Ohio City Writers, Salvatore Scibona, Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, Whiskey Island Review
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Literary Boroughs #49: New Orleans, LA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, Colum McCann, Gertrude Stein, Herbert Asbury, Jack Kerouac, John Kennedy Toole, Kate Chopin, Literary Boroughs, Loyola University, Mark Twain, MFA programs, Nelson Algren, New Orleans, NOCCA, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston
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Literary Boroughs #48: Berlin, Germany
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #47: Seattle, WA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Moon, Boeing, Bumbershoot, Charles Burns, David Shields, Elliott Bay Book Company, Jonathan Raban, Literary Boroughs, Maria Semple, MFA programs, Michael Byers, Microsoft, Nirvana, Octavia Butler, Open Books, Pike Place Market, Poetry Northwest, Richard Hugo, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Sherman Alexie, The Central Library, Theodore Roethke, Tom Robbins, University of Washington
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Roundup: Writing Centers
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to help … Continue reading
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Tagged 826, 826 Boston, Gordon Lish, Grub Street, Jim Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Roundup, The Center for Fiction, writing workshops
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Are You My Mother?
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2012 304 pages $22.00 This post was contributed by Kim Liao. As a nonfiction writer, I envy visual artists. They get a palette of colors and canvases … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?, Fun Home, Kim Liao
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Literary Boroughs #46: Stone Town, Zanzibar, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged A Novel Idea, Dar es Salaam, Emily Reute, Going Solo, Literary Boroughs, Maneno, Memoirs of an Arabian Princess in Zanibar, Roald Dahl, Soma Book Cafe, State University of Zanzibar, Stone Town, Swahili, Tanzania, TPH Bookstore, University of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
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Literary Boroughs #45: Columbia, MO
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
