The Big Quiet
Steve Edwards| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Join me in a reflection on the writer's motives
Shibata Zeshin, Autumn Grasses in Moonlight (detail), second half of the 19th century, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Fun...
Eating lobster at the library
Katsushika Hokusai, Large Lobster, 1800–1815, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, JP1865
My friend Ricky, the assistant director of the Concord Free Public Library, told me a s...
“Accomplished.”
This gessoed board served as a writing tool for students in the ancient world. Typically, student writing by rote would be painted over so they could begin again. Here, the teacher’s edits in red remain. Artist in Ancient Egypt, student wri...
The wondering
So much of my childhood was spent in the backseat of an Oldsmobile station wagon, traveling from our house in Indiana to my grandparents’ house in southern Illinois. If my dad was in a hurry, he buzzed over on the interstate. But he usually...
Self-portrait at six
This morning in my creative nonfiction class, we will be introducing ourselves by writing a short self-portrait. The prompt? Pick an age and make me a list of all your possessions, memories, etc. The idea is this: fill your page with the th...
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Author of Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment (forthcoming, fall 2026) and the memoir Breaking Into the Backcountry. Essays in The Yale Review, The Sun, Orion, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, Longreads, & elsewhere. Out here in Metrowest Boston.
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