From the top of the tower he could see the town, the wide, sweeping river, and the rolling mountains in the distance. The town looked as lifeless as the white wasteland surrounding it. The single red light he had seen the night before, perched high on a radio tower, was still lit, but that was […]
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His last day on the trail before reaching Repulse Bay was a calm and sunny Sunday. The trail passed between granite knifelike ridges. Small bands of caribou crossed in front of him. . . These were the days when the appeal of the Arctic struck a deep chord in Dick. The rewards she parceled out bordered
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The plane fell from the clouds toward the dirt airstrip in the Inupiat Village of Kaktovik, Alaska. I braced myself against the seat in front of me. Windows aged and opaque blurred the borders of ice and land, sea and sky. The airstrip rushed upward with menacing inevitability. Kaktovik perched on Barter Island, a barrier
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I’ve loved reading ever since I was a child, and I loved doing book reports for school because I got to write and talk about books I loved. When I was in an MFA program I loved the required book responses (or annotations, as we called them) because I got to take those books apart
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This was originally published last week in the Anchorage Press, the first in a new column there called Yeah Write. April’s half spent, early gulls have been showing up, and the sun is off and running on its night-eating, post-hibernation binge that will last till solstice. Proper spring’s not here yet, but it’s coming on fast. Gravel-crusted
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It is the day after the Women’s March and I am asking the question: Am I a well-balanced reader when it comes to the multiplicity of writers, especially that of women writers and characters? I sit down in my office this morning to take stock of all the books on my shelves. I want to
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