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Book Review: Jack

By Kate Blackwood / December 21, 2020

He puts on his charming self, his dark self, his lost self. But Della is not the sort to be charmed.

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Best read of the week: Winter swimmer

By Kate Blackwood / December 7, 2020

Cold, open water really does pull you out of your comfortable reality.

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Pie crust as rough draft

By Kate Blackwood / November 29, 2020

Every story or novel I’ve written is at one point or another a big, lumpy mess. Too much in some places, not enough in others. A mass not even resembling what I want it too look like in the end.

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Book review: Looking for life in all the wrong places

By Kate Blackwood / November 27, 2020

At the core of “The Overstory” is a translation problem; the trees are speaking, but we humans are not listening anymore.

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