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Guest Blogger David Ramseur | Crazy Russian Stories Alone Don’t Make a Book

  Spritzing vodka on an Alaska Airlines jet when de-icing fluid couldn’t be found in the Russian Far East. Alaska’s First Lady forgetting her passport on the first high-profile visit to the USSR in 40 years. Launching notes of friendship across the Bering Strait tied to weather balloons instead of messages in a bottle to […]

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Alaska Shorts: “Fire and Ice,” excerpted from If you Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende

AFTER THE LAST fisherman’s funeral, I decided water around here is best when it’s frozen. As I help my youngest daughters into their ice skates, I hum the old carol “In the Bleak Midwinter”: “Earth stood hard as iron, / Water like a stone.” The afternoon is so perfect; it’s like a big exhalation, throwing

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49 Writers weekly round-up

There’s still time to pick up a copy of Cindy Dyson’s And She Was so you can participate in our online book club discussion September 28 and 29. We’ll be running an interview with Dyson next week. And speaking of interviews, we’ve got plenty of good ones coming up: Bill Streever, author of Cold; Mattox

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Alaska Dispatch, the online news and features site that premiered last August, has redesigned yet again. In this major year of transition, I find myself as confused as everyone else about how we’ll get our future news, but really hoping alternatives like Alaska Dispatch stay afloat. I’d love to hear other people’s evolving thoughts about

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