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Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."
July 25, 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.
Got Writer’s Block?
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
W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running
Runner is a Classic, Unsung Piece of Mid-Century Filmmaking
December 14, 2017
By Nick Ripatrazone
Remembering the Great William Gass
"It must be epiphanous, yet remain an enigma."
December 8, 2017
By Nick Ripatrazone
Trying to Save the Lost Soul of College Sports
In Conversation with the Author of Champions Way
November 1, 2017
By Nick Ripatrazone
Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media
When News of Publication Garners Way More Attention Than the Writing Itself
August 31, 2017
By Nick Ripatrazone
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