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(Re)using Found Forms: The Hermit Crab Essay

From the front a hermit crab looks like a hand, a red-fingered fist, curling out of a shell. This seems an appropriate metaphor for a hermit crab essay," writes essayist Randon Billings Noble.
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The Book Doctor

This spring, I sent the vomit draft of my memoir to what I will call a “Book Doctor.” A trained specialist who came highly recommended...
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On Writing the Other

In a recent blog post for Ploughshares, Emilia Phillips described how the news had begun its tangle through her subconscious like kudzu, but she felt..
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Shaping a Memoir from Essays

Back in the mid-eighties, I read Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York — a novel in stories. As a novice fiction writer, a novel-in-stories seemed..
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Individual Education Plan

From The Québec Ministry of Education: “The purpose of the IEP is to help a student … because of a handicap or difficulties … progress..
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Out of the Fog

We bought our place in Maine because we were captivated by its view of three bays converging into an expansive stretch of water. Finally I..