2014

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The Story as Essay: Or, What I’ve Accidentally Learned by Teaching Comp
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Spycar: The World’s Fastest Independent Bookstore
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Publishing With a Letterpress Printer
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A CONSUMER COMPLAINT (in iambic pentameter)
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Thanksgiving greetings from the NAR staff & contributors Bill Graeser and Susan Kort
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Commentary of "Taps"
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Tradition and the Individual Magazine
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Throwback Thursday with "The Lunar Year" from issue 295.2
Jennie Phan Illustration
Write What You Don’t Know
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Magic, Illusion and Other Realities
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Douglas County Jail Blues
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On writing "No One Dances"
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Trader Joe is a Buddhist
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Dan O'Brien, Jude Brancheau, and Martin Ott: A tribute to veterans
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Reading for Otherness
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"Pale Ghosts" Three
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"Pale Ghosts" Two
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"Pale Ghosts" One
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Demystifying Plot
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Cry, Cry, and Try Again
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Two Bookcases
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Hurricane Anniversaries
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Throwback Saturday with "to tear them away" from issue 295.2
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"Elegy for a Scarecrow" from issue 296.4
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James Hearst’s Constructed Regionalism
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Visitations, Difficulties, and Discovering the Light Within
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On My Process
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Lisbon Mon Amour
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Throwback Saturday with "Rhubarb" from issue 295.2
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"Letting Go and Lucidity"
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Peep Rejects (and other inspirations)
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Notes on the Changing Writing Life
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How to Start Your Stories
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Divine Decay: The Scent of Old Pages
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Deconstructing “Call Me Maybe” Lyrics (aka Sisters are Doing it To Themselves)
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Exploding Narrative
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Paley and I
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Throwback Saturday with “Our Campaign for Her World” from issue 295.2
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On "Visitation" from issue 299.4
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Dissecting the Gimmick from issue 299.4
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Jared Rogness: Owning it
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On Donation from issue 299.4
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Distant Yet Personal from issue 299.4
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Throwback Saturday with "Pulled Plug" from issue 295.2
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Rich Ives: Searching the Boundaries
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On "Thesis Statements"
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Gloria L. Huang on her story "Ordinary Things" from issue 299.4
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Food is love, Food is life
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Forgive Me
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Throwback Saturday with "Scop Wanted" from issue 296.2
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Liner Notes from the Green Room: A Report from the inside of the Best American Poetry 2014 Release Reading, the New School NYC
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The Beauty of Sadness: An Essential Human Emotion Exiled in a War Society
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“Shopping for Pants as Lesson in Language” as Lesson in Loss
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The Red-Headed Stepchild
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Most Rejection Isn't Personal from Issue 295.2
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Throwback Saturday with "The Mummy Declines His Curse" from issue 296.2
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Warren Eyster / Writer & Teacher
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The Mirror of Craft
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What About the Dogs?
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Where the Weather Suits the Writing
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"Throw Back Saturday" from issue 296.2
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Remembering 9/11
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Throwback Saturday from issue 296.2
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Flensing Facts from Truth: a Behind the Scenes Look at "Last Visit"
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At a Slug’s Pace – One Writer’s Beginnings
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Wilfred Owen: 'The Last Laugh' or 'Dulce...?
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A Dispatch on the Writing of DISPATCHES FROM THE DROWNINGS
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Origins of "The Obituarist" from issue 294.3-4
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Writers are a Funny Breed
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#NotWriting: Exercise the Demon!
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A Twenty-Year Obsession: “What Falls from Trucks, from the Lips of Saviors” from issue 299.3
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FLIP 2014
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From Poetry to Fiction: The Imagined Self
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The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project
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Some Thoughts about John Clare
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On Writing a Letter I Never Really Sent - After “Dear Mr. Brockett” from issue 295.1
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On the Feeble Attempt to Teach Beauty
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Post-Caucus from issue 294.3-4
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The Poet's Mother’s Death-Bed Conversion
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Braiding My Life: On “Living at Tree Line"
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Living Paper
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House, circa 1846
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Skinny Legs, a Bully, and Inspiration
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Remove Udder: Good and Bad Criticism
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The Making of: Digital Love and Heartbreak
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Write Like Shakespeare: Write What You Don’t Know
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Bridging the Gap
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A Poem in Flight: Memory and Truth
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Live with a Poem
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Some Notes on “A Psalm” from issue 294.3/4
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Poets of Color: Writing Prompts Aplenty
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Why Does Poetry Matter?
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On the Feedy Sea of Poetry: From the Sprawl of Les Murray to Deathlessness and Inner Violence in “Deciduous” from issue 299.2
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"Neruda" from issue 295.2
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The (Writing) History That’s Written By the Winners
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Putting the Extra into the Ordinary
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THE EUCAPLYPTUS TREE: Some thoughts on the process of growing a novel
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The Birth of “Suspension” from issue 299.2
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It's not nice to annoy the editor. . .
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About "Writing Abandoned Mine Under Snow" from issue 299.2
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Writing is like Improv Comedy (minus the comedy)
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Phenomenal Woman
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Abundance: Spring from issue 299.2
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On “Missionary" from issue 299.2
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Reading and Thinking and Writing
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Behind the Poem: "Quantum Theory" from issue 299.2
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Creating the Illustration for "Garden Memorials" from issue 299.2
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A Strange Collage
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Writing Short Stories in Bulgaria
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Summons: Thoughts on Reflective Writing and Mental Health
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Our Lucky Issue 13
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North American Review’s Issue 299.2 Now in Print
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On Writing "The Datura" in Issue 299.1
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To Slip the Cable Free: Why I Wrote an Epic Poem from issue 295.3
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Get Creative Inspiration from Your Other Writing
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Psychologist and Writer: Toward Art
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Barry Targan on Writing Through the Years
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Managing Managing Editor: "What's the status of my submission?" "It's complicated."
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The Poem Love Demands
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This Is NOT a Story about Astronauts: Illustrating “Naples” from issue 299.1
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Freighthopping Fiction: Borrowing from Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams
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Looking Behind the Poem
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#NotWriting: I, Morning Writer
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Managing Managing Editor: Office Structure
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A Note About "In El Hipo" in issue 299.1
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Adventures of an Amateur Writer
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The Artist's Vision
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On "Ancient Aliens" from issue 298.4
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North American Review's Issue 299.1 now in print
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Double Duty; Writing and Illustrating Comics
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Images for Words from issue 298.4
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On writing: "Plenty, Hay" from issue 299.1
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Artists and Artisans
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On lyrics and lyrics
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The Loss of Intellect
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The Fog
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Switching Style and Focus in Writing, from issue 299.1
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Door to Another World: about “Rutabaga” from 297.2
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“At the Monk-a-stery”: Bending the Facts to Tell the Truth from Issue 297.4
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Hybrids
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Loving the Alien
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The Perfect Fail
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On Translating Manuel José Arce’s “Map With a Stone” and “Presidential Sermon” from issue 298.3
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Clare Sullivan, from issue 298.4, explores the sounds and images of Natalia Toledo's poetry
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On "Eloise" from issue 298.2
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About “The Baker’s Apprentice” from issue 298.1
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The Edge of the Poem
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Can I Get an Amen?: about "Unrepentant Prayer" from 298.4
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Why I've Never Eaten a McDonald's Hamburger
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Fraught Conversations and Appalling Fanfare: About “Assassin’s Alphabet (an abecedarian)” from issue 298.2
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Everything Must Converge
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Being Scandalous
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The Trenchant is Poetic: Notes on “Washing Palms” from Issue 298.3
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Eric Barnes on writing "One Day, One Week, An Hour" from issue 298.2
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Writing for Dummies
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Reflection on the Slim Years
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On writing "Amor Fati" from issue 298.2
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On writing “A Letter to the Coroner in the Voice of Marian Parker” from issue 298.2
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The Anti-Process
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In a Tide Drawn Out: Self-Awareness and Sound in “Not a Self-Portrait” from issue 298.2
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On writing "Funk, Sex, & Chocolate Milk" from issue 298.2
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Heather Sellers on the creation of "I Swam Where Johnny was Tarzan" from issue 298.2
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In the Heart of the Heart of Duluth on the Inspiration for "Greetings From Duluth" from Issue 298.2
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Building "Consensus" from issue 298.2
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Brandi Homan • The Next Big Thing Interview
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The Show and Tell of Poetry’s Show & Tell
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Nicolas Poynter on the inspiration of "La Bomba Grande" from issue 297.3
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The Art of Ecstasy
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Living in my head
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On "Ahnentafel" from issue 298.2
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Geography at the End of the World from issue 298.1
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About "Having Been Outside the Body" from issue 297.2
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Drafting and Crafting of “Pale Blue Dot”: Keeping the Schmaltz at Bay from issue 298.4
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What Matters