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As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings
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By
Steve Edwards
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On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation
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By
Steve Edwards
| July 14, 2023
When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do
Steve Edwards: “A story is a negotiation between what might have been, what is, and what still could be.”
By
Steve Edwards
| April 15, 2022
Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life
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By
Steve Edwards
| August 23, 2021
In the Face of Implacable Landscapes, Natural and Viral
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By
Steve Edwards
| April 9, 2020
On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)
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By
Steve Edwards
| January 3, 2019
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What I Didn't Know About Life, Marriage, and Working on the Line
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My Writer's Idyll is a Busy, Messy, Full Life
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Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing
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Steve Edwards
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by
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The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery
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