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Ladette Randolph

Ladette Randolph is the editor in chief of Ploughshares magazine and is distinguished publisher-in-residence at Emerson College. She is the author of several books, including This is Not the Tropics, Private Way (Nebraska, 2022), Haven’s Wake (Bison Books, 2013), A Sandhills Ballad (Bison Books, 2011), and Leaving the Pink House.


Finding Inspiration in Willa Cather’s Belief in the Necessity of Art

Ladette Randolph on Cather’s Romanticized Plots and Fierce Intelligence
March 7, 2022  By Ladette Randolph
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