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On the Infinite Lives of the Library

On the Infinite Lives of the Library

Steve Edwards Loves Nothing More Than Library Hours

By Steve Edwards | December 4, 2025

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

Steve Edwards on the Gathering of Life’s Infinite Moments

By Steve Edwards | August 27, 2024

On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

Steve Edwards Wonders If It’s Possible to Translate One Generation’s Trauma to the Next

By Steve Edwards | July 14, 2023

When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do

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

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the Things We Miss

By Steve Edwards | August 23, 2021

In the Face of Implacable Landscapes, Natural and Viral

In the Face of Implacable Landscapes, Natural and Viral

Steve Edwards on Sharks, Stories, and One of the Great Art Teachers of the 20th Century, Hans Hofmann

By Steve Edwards | April 9, 2020

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On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)

By Steve Edwards | January 3, 2019

What I Didn't Know About Life, Marriage, and Working on the Line

By Steve Edwards | March 7, 2018

My Writer's Idyll is a Busy, Messy, Full Life

By Steve Edwards | January 23, 2017

Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing

Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing

Steve Edwards on the Daily Astonishments of Raising a Child

By Steve Edwards | June 17, 2016