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July 11, 2011

Shadows Bright as Glass

What a mystery is the human mind!  Nudge a few neurons, and one person can transform radically. Such is the case with Jon Sarkin, mundane chiropractor turned obsessive artist by stroke and surgery.  Pulitzer nominee Amy Ellis Nutt tells his tragic but miraculous story with insight and grace.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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