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Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives
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Courtney Maum on Finally Learning to Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
After Birthing a Child, Finding New Ways to Move
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Courtney Maum
| February 4, 2021
Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral
Courtney Maum on Dealing with Internet Fame
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| January 9, 2020
Small Acts: Finding Friendship with My Online Spanish Teacher
Courtney Maum on the Way Worlds Open Up Through Language
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| July 12, 2019
Why I Founded an Interdisciplinary Retreat for Artists and Writers
Our mediums can be vastly enhanced by learning about someone else’s
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Courtney Maum
| May 11, 2017
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