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The "One True Sentence" contest will remain open another day. Give it a try! See the two previous posts for...

In the last post, I wrote about Ernest Hemingway’s “Paris 1922” writing exercise, which helped him find his mature style...

Students often tell me the old lie they’ve been told themselves—Hemingway’s prose is simplicity itself. (“What do Hemingway scholars have...

I was brought up short by the snap of recognition the other day. In classes I often use the late...

How did the Liberty Bell get stuck in an ugly prefab, which looks like a small rest stop you’d see...

I’ll admit it: It took me too long to come around to Scotland, and I blame that on the American...

After applying for tenure-track jobs this year, I got a letter from a university in the California State system, signed...

Our house was built at the end of the Civil War and is listed on the National Register of Historic...