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Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions, founded in 1997. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.

15 books
Book Cover for: It Is the Mark of an Educated Mind to Be Able to Entertain a: Thought Without Accepting It. - Aristotle, Thoughful Journals

It Is the Mark of an Educated Mind to Be Able to Entertain a: Thought Without Accepting It. - Aristotle

Thoughful Journals
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle

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Book Cover for: Fox 8: A Story, George Saunders

Fox 8: A Story

George Saunders
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"There’s something really interesting about this notion that there is a below-the-surface part of the mind participating in the writing of a story, and that what we call ‘process’ is about getting out of the way of that part of the mind.” ~ George Saunders

Hardcover, 2018

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 41-Love: A Memoir, Scarlett Thomas

41-Love: A Memoir

Scarlett Thomas
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A Review of Scarlett Thomas’ 41-Love https://t.co/LBh40MqIHO

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Where Are the Snows: Poems, Kathleen Rooney

Where Are the Snows: Poems

Kathleen Rooney
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Finding Joy in the Struggle: Kathleen Rooney’s “Where Are the Snows” https://t.co/wOXXYpy1Oh

Paperback, 2022

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir, Aileen Weintraub

Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Aileen Weintraub
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A Review of Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub https://t.co/Q1TLXdjhpu

Paperback, 2022

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, Melissa Febos

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos
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"The first few pages of @MelissaFebos Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative hit hard, and I started to vibrate, emotionally." ~ @iambrianwatson #memoir https://t.co/1nxJ6RKFDv

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Night at the Fiestas: Stories, Kirstin Valdez Quade

Night at the Fiestas: Stories

Kirstin Valdez Quade
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QAE Short Prose Contest Prize: $1,008.15 + Publication Judge: Kirstin Valdez Quade Submit up to three previously unpublished pieces of 500 words or fewer. Send us your best prose poems, short-short stories, micro-essays, etc. @qaejournal #flash https://t.co/kR7D2jGFxZ https://t.co/5AY2958fIq

Paperback, 2016

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, Jill Christman

If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays

Jill Christman
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A Review of Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays https://t.co/89beMAorgS

Paperback, 2022

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman

Stories: All-New Tales

Neil Gaiman
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"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you." ~ Neil Gaiman

Paperback, 2011

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gone the Hard Road: A Memoir, Lee Martin

Gone the Hard Road: A Memoir

Lee Martin
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"Writing a memoir is an act of love ... because it requires empathy and compassion. An act of love because it strives to tell the truth in all its complexity. " ~ Lee Martin / @LeeMartinAuthor

Hardcover, 2021

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book