The Big Quiet
Steve Edwards| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Reclaiming the writing life
Simon Denis, Cloud Study (Distant Storm), about 1786–1806. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003.42.19
During a little...
Rare Good
Friends: At long last, I am pleased to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is now available for preorder and will released this October as part of University of Nebraska Press’s American Lives ser...
Writing as belonging
Kubo Shunman, Pocket-Books, 19th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, JP2044
For years now I have thought of my teaching as the practice of creating little pockets of b...
A reflection on the writer's motives
Shibata Zeshin, Autumn Grasses in Moonlight (detail), late 19th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and...
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...
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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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