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The boy had one usable volume of Fisher’s Universal Encyclopedia, so he used it, what else could he do? Better than nothing. Skipping around, wearing it down, revisiting his favorite parts as if it were one of his adventure tales. As a story, the encyclopedia was disjointed and incomplete, but still exciting in its own right.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys: the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
The kind of guy some kids think is a child-eating troll but other kids suspect, correctly, is a secret wizard.
Kate Racculia • Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts
Read a bit of fiction.
Jon Acuff • Soundtracks
Jonah Sachs. A natural storyteller and the author of a bestselling book on how to use stories in marketing, Winning the Story Wars,
Alex Evans • The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough
There was something stunned in the faces of the children, blinking and tentative. The slow, dull, dark submarine of the lives in which they were the human cargo had abruptly surfaced. Their blood was filled with a kind of crippling nitrogen of wonder. Nobody was smiling or laughing, though with children, entertainment often seemed to be a grave bus
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The goal is not to keep the TICHN cart empty and thus write a “perfectly normal” story. A story that approaches its ending with nothing in its TICHN cart is going to have a hard time ending spectacularly. A good story is one that, having created a pattern of excesses, notices those excesses and converts them into virtues.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
In the fall of 1980, Karen Fleshman was a sixth grader at Mary Blair Elementary School when she heard the news that her favorite author had sparked concern among community members and was at risk of being purged from the school library. Fleshman, then an eleven-year-old “voracious reader” with glasses, braces, and a short feathered blond haircut, w
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