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Lee Cole
What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions
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Lee Cole
| June 17, 2025
What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity
Lee Cole on the Homogenization of Rural Life in America
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Lee Cole
| March 8, 2022
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