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Ageism, Assumptions, Tokenism, and the Hope Beyond

After meeting this morning I was approached by a Friend (fellow Quaker) who seemed deeply impressed at my latest vocal ministry. The first question she asked was "So, how long have you been here?"I...

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Lady Gaga and Emergent Feminism

In these days of musical famine, where the industry responsible for bringing new talent to the forefront is very much still hemorrhaging money left and right, the latest buzz frequently focuses on...

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In Response to Feminism's Generation Wars:  An Open Letter

Here an introduction for the layperson.  The past several months have seen a flurry of postings and columns in which Generation X and Y Feminists have expressed exasperation at the ways of their Baby...

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Huck Finn and the Hunger Games

Are you a teacher upset by your school's resistance to allowing the original version of Huck Finn?  I may have the solution--The Hunger Games. I admit, I read the first page and thought I would hate...

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A Psychiatrist's Humble Defense of Young Adults and "Obamacare"

This is the last in a series of three related op-eds defending the Affordable Care Act.  They are a "Daily Kos Exclusive," because the major papers wouldn't print any of them.After this, I go back to...

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A Blue-Collar Girl in a White-Collar World

I am (and to some extent, have always been) a writer, but my desire to become a novelist did not emerge until after I’d made the choice to drop out of high school and become an “autodidact” (someone...

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"My wife Norma had run off with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they had gone. I was biding my time. This was October. They had taken my...

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"I told Agustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like:...

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Paul's Book Reviews: Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Memoir, Young...

"Nothing is more important mostly than a funeral," Violet said as they ate a noon lunch of soup and sandwiches. "The whole point of a person's life—or the lack of a point if it's more or less...

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Ayn Rand antidote: For the Win!

Ayn Rand's cold, dead hand has held the controls too long. It's time for a new mythology to replace Atlas Shrugged and the rest of the hogwash that dripped from her venomous pen.For the Win, Cory...

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Paul's Book Reviews: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir,...

"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it’s the best we can manage." -- A Delicate Truth, John le CarréA Delicate Truth John le CarréJohn le Carré...

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LGBT Literature: David Levithan

David Levithan is out and proud, and so too is his young adult (YA) fiction. When asked at the 2012 National Book Festival why he likes to write so many queer books, after initially responding,...

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DC Gentrification: A Decidedly Mixed Blessing

Ten years ago, I enrolled in grad school and began to get to know my classmates. I befriended two transplants from elsewhere who were several years older than me. I confided to them that I hoped to...

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"Coming Out" to Dad -- "SON, IN THIS HOUSE, THE DOOR ONLY SWINGS IN ONE...

One dad puts his foot down about his son's sexual orientation....15 years ago...separation and reconciliation. I was a college professor for many years, and really tried to connect with students as...

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“And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell.”— Hugh Howey, Sand OmnibusSand Omnibus Hugh HoweyI looked at the different ways readers categorized this book, and one...

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Organizing and Mobilizing in Today's World

We had spent the whole day, the whole conference, really, attaching vocabulary words in permanent marker to self-adhesive poster boards. If you read them, you'd see complicated terms like "hegemony",...

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Self-Publishing 101: 5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Author Events

Eventually as a writers you’ll end up at a writer’s conference, book festival, or author signing.  At those events, you will play a variety of roles: professional, fanboy/fangirl, learner, listener,...

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Top Comments: the S.E. Hinton edition

A look at a writer who changed the world of young adult fiction in America, after the jump ….But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you...

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The Language of the Night: Dystopias for the Young

Personally I’m conflicted about the Young Adult genre in fantasy.  It’s huge, and it’s been a powerful lever to launch talented new writers into the market and bring them receptive readers, although...

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Paul's Book Reviews: Hugger-Mugger, Mostly

“Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.”—Michael Connelly, The Black Echo3.5 of 5...

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