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Category: Columns

Caroline M. Mar on Thinking about How Difficult Being a Person is for Everyone

Caroline M. Mar on Thinking about How Difficult Being a Person is for Everyone

Posted on May 15, 2022August 1, 2023 by Sydney Armstrong

What’s been most important to your writing: education, or the real world? Why?

History, which is something of both. My history, others’ histories, the world’s history, untold histories, imagined histories…

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Abigail Stewart on Pushing Beyond Your Own Juvenilia and Finding Something Unexpected

Abigail Stewart on Pushing Beyond Your Own Juvenilia and Finding Something Unexpected

Posted on May 3, 2022August 1, 2023 by Sydney Armstrong

What’s been most important to your writing: education, or the real world? Why?

Certainly the real world. Although my formal education was interesting, it didn’t provide the context necessary to push beyond my own juvenilia.

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