Cattle Haul
by Jesmyn Ward in A Public Space
“Part of me want to stop. Part of me want to pull over on the side of the road and turn the rig off and start walking back to where I come from; want to get out the rig and [...]
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The Letter Punch Interview
Jesmyn Ward is the recipient of the 2011 National Book Award for her novel Salvage the Bones. Her short fiction has appeared in BOMB Magazine and The Oxford American. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and was the [...]
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Dawn Raffel and Jacqueline Doyle
in 5_trope
“The voice is what fails her, and also the riotous pulse at the wrist, and also, of course, the present [...]
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Pictures to Launch a Thousand Words
NIAGRA by Alec Soth
Alec Soth’s NIAGRA Today is Wednesday. You’ve clawed your way through Monday and Tuesday and those pernicious hours spent at [...]
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Jim Ruland
The Letter Punch Interview
I first met Jim Ruland at a San Diego Writer’s Ink workshop he was teaching about the “Micro Memoir”. He [...]
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Homeward Bound
by Jim Ruland in Reader’s Digest
“When I was in the Navy, I drank like a sailor. When I got out of the Navy, I drank [...]
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The Previous Adventures of Popeye the Sailor
by Jim Ruland
“In addition to the pair of stock anchors that adorn his massive forearms, Popeye has a portrait of a woman [...]
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