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Read of the week: Songbird lost at sea

By Kate Blackwood / April 2, 2021

A female scarlet tanager dropped onto the ship and for five days became a star passenger.

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Swimming is her favorite state of being: ‘Chronology of Water’

By Kate Blackwood / March 27, 2021

If we ever ended up in the same YMCA pool, Lidia would swim me out of the water. But we both know what it means to show up.

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What I didn’t expect from a place I’ve never been: Action in “Mendocino Fire”

By Kate Blackwood / March 6, 2021

The way she tells it, it’s happening before you know it’s happening, much the same way the character is plunged into the sea or down a steep drop or into the vortex of an irrevocable relational tangle. The prose is swift and unexpectedly physical.

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Read of the Week: Accidents and Trails

By Kate Blackwood / February 11, 2021

Do you keep hiking, or do you fly home?

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