12 November 2025
My new home state, Georgia, and I continue to grow into each other. The first lasting impression came early, on the shuttle from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport to Athens. The coast-to-coast trip between LAX and ATL is not …
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14 July 2025
July we’ve been on the road. We, my home family, spent the entirety of the July Fourth week in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On Thursday we will drive down to Jacksonville, Florida, and then St. Simons, Georgia, for a …
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We’re back and rested from the AWP whirlwind. About AWP what can I say? It tickles me to think the provenance for AWP is Walt Whitman’s barbaric yawp. In the final section of “Song of Myself,” Whitman …
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29 January 2025
Happy lunar new year. Happy year of the snake.
“He understands the power of books, but doesn’t appreciate literature!” my friend Fish exclaimed. This was some summer in the early 2010s at Fish’s house in the rural …
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22 November 2024
For my editing and publishing students, I am always seeking accounts of what it means to build a life and career in publications. In an interview last year on the podcast Print is Dead (Long Live Print!)…
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18 July 2024
I’m starting this at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, in my hotel room, at five am, having already been up for over an hour. Apparently, 1) I get jet lag even when I drive, and 2) my two-year-old’s …
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8 May 2024
Last week, we had yet another great event here in Athens, Georgia. Xinyue Huang and Hanif Abdurraqib read at our storied music venue, the 40 Watt, to a house packed by locals and out-of-towners. Avid Bookshop was …
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1 February 2024
By the time this issue leaves the printer, the writer Alexander Chee will have come to give the Betty Jean Craige lecture, hosted by the comparative literature department at UGA. I am very excited about the visit, …
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15 November 2023
This past year I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that most—all, the polemicist would assert—of the major stylistic interventions of the twenty-first century driving the book world now are born out of literary periodicals. McSweeney’s, …
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