In Praise of the High School English Teacher
Introducing a New Column by Nick Ripatrazone
August 27, 2019
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Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor at Image Journal, a contributing editor at The Millions, and a columnist at Lit Hub. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Esquire. He lives in Andover Township, New Jersey, with his wife and twin daughters. His latest book, Longing for an Absent God, is available from Fortress Press.
Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets
Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”
August 20, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers
Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.
August 13, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
InterLibrary Loan Will
Change Your Life
Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
the Apex of Human Civilization
August 7, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
Got Writer’s Block?
Read This Poem
Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."
July 25, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story
The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter
June 20, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks
“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”
April 2, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
Is Line Editing a Lost Art?
"A great teacher is a gift. A great line editor is a miracle."
February 6, 2019
By Nick Ripatrazone
Literary Magazines Are Born to Die
Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget
November 2, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass
Never Trust a Man Named 'Edward Drogo Mork'
September 13, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West
On Her Novel of Borders, Open Spaces, Closed Homes, and Family
September 5, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation
From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney, on the Correspondence
of Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn
July 27, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing
One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next
July 20, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
On the Sleepless Lives of Writers
Insomnia: Source of Suffering or Creativity?
June 26, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
Donald Hall: Poet of Eagle Pond Farm
When a Writer is Inextricably Linked to Place
June 25, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
The 1961 Novel That Makes a Great Case for Moviegoing
On Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
June 14, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
Sometimes the Best Way to Read is to Mark Up the Book
On the Revelatory Power of Annotations
April 23, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
At the Edge of the Woods: Why Writers Need Wilderness
The Forest is Full of Stories
April 11, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
Young Writers Need to Believe Their Stories Matter
Nick Ripatrazone on the Power of Praise
March 26, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
Jamie Quatro: How Should a Christian Writer Be?
The author of Fire Sermon on God, sex, and Evangelical America.
January 9, 2018
By Nick Ripatrazone
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