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Susan Houg's avatar

Elections come and go, but novels about people struggling to create a life of hope for themselves and others carry me through every season. Bless God for such folk as Flannery and Sara.

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Kristen's avatar

Committing to creativity gives me hope. So I thank my stars that this newsletter arrived at this moment on this day at when the very thing I didn’t know I needed presented itself. Signed up immediately for revision workshop. I’m now a Thing with Feathers.

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Sara Zarr's avatar

Oh yay!

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Gordon Hultberg's avatar

"Literature as Experience" was the book I think of when O'Connor writes about Fiction as Experience. By Louise Rosenblatt, it is the foundation of my literature teaching, as she writes in the 1930s-40s, another tumultuous time, about young readers having a "lived-through experience".

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