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April 2023

Writing about People of Different Individual & Cultural Identities

Maryka Biaggio & Vanitha Sankaran
As a culture, we have silenced and discriminated against people from different cultures and people that are differently-abled to such an extent that their voices are simply not very accessible to white, able-bodied persons.

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Women Who Love Musicians All Their Lives

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Kate Morgan
“I think it’s the epitome of art, when you find somebody whose whole expression of being is in their work. Elvis is one of those people.”

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The Art of Living

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Helena Feder
“The experience of literature is democratic. What I love about a good story is that anybody can get into it.”

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In Whose Voice

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Scott Driscoll & A. Muia
“It stands to reason that Flaubert—working in an era of literary transition and attempting to pioneer a new method—represented a mixture of new and old techniques.”

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Deborah Levy

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Liam Hoare
“Levy’s living memoir is an attempt to find a language that turns the author, a female writer, into a subject and grapples with the societal system and the conditions that have shaped her.”

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Blah, Blah, Love

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Jessica Jacobs
A good coach makes sure the players see the bigger picture and understand the purpose of the drills. A good coach recognizes exceptions but doesn’t use them to tear down proven techniques.

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From Rules to Rebels

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J.T. Bushnell
Powerful, effective love poems invite in Lorca’s duende, acknowledging the light and the dark of the world, and all the shades in between.

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