2022

Profiles In Resistance: You Don’t Have to Love It as Long as You Do It by Andromeda Romano-Lax

I’m sitting in the parking lot of the local public pool, reading and drinking lukewarm coffee, knowing my bladder won’t let me fully relax, watching the clock and feeling the pain in my lower back from this unhealthy sitting position. The lap lanes close at 2:00. I need precisely one hour to do my workout

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The Joys and Challenges of Fictionalizing Alaska: (Or How NOT to Alienate All Your Friends in Your Home Town) with Rich Chiappone

Watch a recording of this event: Recorded: Friday, January 21 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Bio: Rich Chiappone is the author of three collections of stories and/or essays published in national magazines including Alaska Magazine, Gray’s Sporting Journal, the Sun, and others; and in literaries including Catamaran Literary Reader, Fiction Southeast,

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Intentions: Setting a Creative Path for the New Year with Heather Lende

Watch a recording of this event: Recorded: Thursday, January 13 2022 | 6 PM – 7 PM via Zoom Let’s jump start our creative process for 2022 with an informal workshop on writing practice, discipline and inspiration. It’s been a tough year, so let’s make the next one a little better. Bio: Heather Lende is

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War Novels, Combat Women, and the Beautiful Souls Narrative by Kristen Ritter

I was watching Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk, and I found myself performing a familiar exercise: trying to imagine the soldiers as women. Without changing any details of plot or the actors’ essential movements, could I imagine a female in the boy-soldier’s place? What about the boat captain? The sailor? The English commander? What would

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A Tribute to Dan Branch

DANIEL NELSON BRANCH, age 70, died peacefully on January 5, 2022, at his home in Juneau. It can be a cliché to say a man lived a full life, but Dan did that and more. He left an indelible mark on people across Alaska with his work as a state attorney, his passion as an

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In Search of Lost Time, 2022: Not Another Productivity Post by Andromeda Romano-Lax

I put away my scale for the month of January. Generally, I believe in weighing myself daily, which research supports as helping with weight control. But I could tell I was investing too much in the flashing numbers, being buoyed or dismayed by small fluctuations instead of putting emphasis on real health: how I feel,

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