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When class is about to end and someone asks a question

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This is a guest post from Megan Mayhew-Bergman. Megan lives on a small farm in Vermont, where she is a Justice of the Peace and mother of two. Scribner published her first book, Birds of a Lesser Para

 I don’t so much want to be a boy as I want to be free from expectations about traditional femininity and the messages society throws my way: clean your house, tend your children while your husband pursues his dreams, be gentle and beautiful, don’t age. I don’t think Jo resents being a girl as much as being treated like one; she resents her lack of agency, the sense of helplessness that permeates her work and home life.

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I think this is the point we are all conveniently missing.

On this day in 1986, Elie Wiesel gave his spectacularly timely Nobel speech on human rights and our shared responsibility in ending injustice. 

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Old lady interaction no. 1

Just now. Andrea: well I'm sorry you have to stay and work but we are leaving. Me: gee thanks Andrea. You are always so kind to me. Andrea: we want you to keep working so we can get social security.

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You are a young writer. Write.

Joseph Scapellato summarizes the life of a young writer for Electric Lit. (via millionsmillions)

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From Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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Wes Lang

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like returning home again.

Jo March, Little Women (via simplelittlebookworm)

Coincidentally this is exactly how I feel about Little Women!

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It sounds like a writer’s dream: traveling the country, exploring its little-known regions, chronicling its lore while honing your literary chops and fattening your stores of setting, plot and character — and all on the government’s dime! (Albeit a very thin dime.)

Such a thing did exist...

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My perfect day.

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I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn’t I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can’t write, one shouldn’t write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

Stanley Crawford in a letter to Noy Holland (The Believer, Feburary 2010)

Hmmm

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Green things, writing things

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Ooh fun!

The big second-half 2014 preview is here at last, and it’s a doozy — with books by Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, Marilynn Robinson, Denis Johnson, Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood, and 77 more.

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Supreme Court Majority Calls Case a Dispute Between Women and People : The New Yorker

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I never can quite fathom summer’s end at its start, and so my reading lists stretch on endlessly, too, crammed with long novels too unwieldy for the demands of other seasons.

Alternate Routes: A Summer Reading Itinerary (via millionsmillions)

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Alan Watts on the difference between belief and faith

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Book photo challenge Day 3: Quote.