Aesthetic Drift
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Aesthetic Drift #6: Psych Yourselves Up, Fellow Writers—NaNoWriMo is Almost Over!
Aesthetic Drift #6 by Lisa Martens Psych Yourselves Up, Fellow Writers—NaNoWriMo is almost over! Like many self-loathing, procrastinating writers who fear of dying before the world discovers their geniuses, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For those of you with self-respect (to quote Louis CK), I will explain: During the month of… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #5: What It’s Really Like Owning a Writing Center
Aesthetic Drift #5 by Racquel Henry What It’s Really Like Owning a Writing Center Writer’s Atelier at One Year For years I have admired creative writing centers like The Center for Fiction in New York, Grub Street in Boston, The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, and The Porch in Tennessee, just to name a few. These centers balance… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #4: On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 2
Aesthetic Drift #4 by Ciara Shuttleworth On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 2 When I left off with Part 1 of this blog, I was in Winside, Nebraska, where I lived for a large chunk of my childhood. After sending Part 1 off to John King, I spent one more day in… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #3: On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 1
Aesthetic Drift #3 by Ciara Shuttleworth On the Road, After Living in Jack Kerouac’s House, Part 1 I am in Winside, Nebraska, the place my family called home from 1983-1988. I am sitting on a porch owned by family friend Lin Brummel, and her dog, Pickles, is beside me, enjoying the shade but ever-aware of… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #2: On Motherhood: Rethinking Hurston’s Most Famous Novel
Aesthetic Drift #2 by Rochelle Spencer On Motherhood: Rethinking Hurston’s Most Famous Novel Though I hadn’t read Their Eyes Were Watching God in more than fifteen years, when I returned to graduate school a couple of years ago to complete a doctorate, I was assigned Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel three separate times within seven… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #1: A Voice Frozen
Aesthetic Drift #1 by Kseniya Melnik A Voice Frozen My hometown, Magadan, in the northeast of Russia is a port city isolated from the rest of the continent and it is the emotional heart of my first collection of stories, the center of gravity toward which each of the characters is pulled. As I was… Continue reading
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