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Short story writer and essayist Steve Almond just wrote an essay about how he figured out he wasn't a poet. It's an unexpected tribute to C.K. Williams poetry:

"Somehow, in the midst of manifest suffering, he managed to capture the rescuing beauty of the world. The flashing yellow beak of a blackbird. A box of foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. The bulges and crevasses of his baby's naked body."

USA Today just named the Top 25 Headlines from the last 25 years. It's a good way to think about your writing--how can you account for these earth-shaking moments in your fiction and non-fiction?

Over at PaperCuts, Tom Perrotta just delivered a musical playlist for writers. He ties together a few seemingly unrelated songs, thematically and story-wise. Give it a listen.

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