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    Art as Inspiration: How Collage Can Help Create Compelling Characters

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    How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

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    By James Shapiro  May 28, 2024

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    Beauty and Terror: On Understanding and Accepting a Schizophrenic Mother

    By Nina St. Pierre  May 28, 2024
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    Lucas Mann on Personal Hangups

    By I'm a Writer But   May 28, 2024

    Dhonielle Clayton on Being the Change You Want to See

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    Edward Hamlin on Authorship

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    “The Final City.” A Poem by Samer Abu Hawwash, translated by Huda Fakhreddine

    By Samer Abu Hawwash and Huda Fakhreddine  May 24, 2024

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    Reading Photographs as Texts for Narrative Inspiration

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    Bound for Betrayal: The Crime Films of Elaine May

    May 28, 2024  By Vince Keenan