Louise Erdrich told a small group of Alaskan writers gathered at Tutka Bay Lodge outside of Homer a month ago that poetry is lightning and prose is rain. She also said that our survival as a species may just depend on telling stories. It’s in our DNA. I read the other day that literature is […]
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AQR: More Important To Me Than I Could Have Guessed A lot of the things that happen in the north could happen anywhere. I remember driving a gravel piece of the Alcan Highway behind a motorcycle that fishtailed in the deep gravel then crashed, flinging its rider upside down in the air. We watched her
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As Mark Twain said about the erroneous reporting of his own death, perhaps the ‘Death of Fiction’ was also a bit exaggerated in the title of this recent Mother Jones article, brought to our attention by a 49w reader. But article titles, which editors rather than writers often generate, are one thing. (I mean ‘Death
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In December, The Northern Review , a journal published by Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, recently produced a special literature issue for fall 2009. (The journal normally deals with more scholarly subjects.) The guest editor is Eric Heyne, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the issue was published with support from both the
