A Vocab Test for the Overachiever | Abby Lavery
"Define cohort. a) the people you fall with. The kids whose potential you see drain out of them when burnout hits..."
The Other Side of the Thing | Dan Chilton
"We need to defamiliarize our processes and our ideas. Throw some metaphorical wrenches into the machinery just to see what happens..." Dan Chilton unpacks "the pressures of literary realism on those approaching publishing."
Abstract Writing | David Stromberg
"Rigor is a word that’s used more often in theoretical mathematics than in the creative arts. It has to do with the process of proving something as seemingly simple as the idea that 1 + 1 = 2..."
Ability to Fit | Jacey de la Torre
"The trail is a sentence that I write with my steps, punctuating and accenting with the strict rhythm of my breath, an organic and lived poem etched into the land as it burns me anew..." Jacey de la Torre on discovering self and story through running.
The Noblest of the Senses: A Catalog | Joshua James Amberson
"René Descartes famously called sight the 'noblest' of the senses... the high status of sight is truer than when he wrote the words in 1637, as the printing press was taking the place of oral traditions." Joshua James Amberson on "vision's reign" in storytelling media and at large.