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Looking for the Next Circus
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You’ve just got to keep moving, looking for the next circus, dancing the next dance—because you can’t die when you’re laughing, you can’t die when you’re spinning around. Or that was Dawn’s theory.
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Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Today, we looked closely at John Updike’s style, analyzing passages from Rabbit, Run, the first novel in a trilogy called The Rabbit Novels. We saw how once a writer dips into the interior, the traditional senten...
Is that a Fresh Chance in the Air?
Rabbit Run by John Updike
(Please note: we’ll be looking closely at Updike’s style techniques at our Swimming in Style Zoom gathering TODAY, Saturday, July 25, at 11:00 am Pacific Time. You…
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Nina Schuyler's short story collection, IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award. Her new novel, OPEN THE FLOODGATES, will be published September 15, 2026.
In awe of nature’s design brilliance. I teach architecture and write stories and essays to cultivate hope. Born at 318 ppm.
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