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Every Cut Has a Kerf

December 15, 2024 By Maureen Langloss

The Cover of Issue 62 of the Harvard Review

I am delighted to have two poems in Harvard Review this month, one in their gorgeous new print issue and the other online. I am so grateful to the editors at HR for including me alongside so many authors I admire and for taking such care with all of our work. I hope you will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Latest Post

Best American Short Stories

November 2, 2022 By Maureen Langloss

I am thrilled to share that my story, "I Am in It," published in Alaska Quarterly Review, was noted as a Distinguished Story of 2021 in The Best American Short Stories, edited by Andrew Sean Greer with Heidi Pitlor. It was an honor simply to be included in an issue of AQR and a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading Tagged With: Best American Short Stories, Short Fiction, short story

Top Ten Bits & Pieces of Ice

January 1, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

I was touched when Little Fiction asked me to write a 2018 top-ten list for their annual New Year's tradition. But I was also stumped. What to write? As I concentrated more on the task, images of ice kept popping into my head. Icebergs, blocks of ice, icicles. I kept shaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay Tagged With: Annie Dillard, Antarctica, Attaboy, cocktails, Dawn Wall, figure skating, Hannah Tinti, ice, Jakobshavn Glacier, Leni Zumas, Maria Semple, Red Clocks, Stephanie Burt, Stephanie Vaughn, Zaria Forman

Purple Ball Day

June 23, 2017 By Maureen Langloss

My kids and I invented our own holiday, and I wrote about it for The Manifest-Station. Read my essay on family traditions, faith, and doubt. … [Read more...]

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It’s A Man’s World

November 9, 2016 By Maureen Langloss

I offer you a sampling of things I have heard, read, and seen this past month on the topic of women and inequality: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay Tagged With: Donald Trump, Emily Dickinson, Equality, Harvard Crimson, Harvard Men's Soccer, Hillary Clinton, Inequality, Phillis Wheatley, Pope Francis, Roxane Gay, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Virgina Woolf, Women's Rights

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Closup of a violin with bow over strings and hand holding the neck. Bracelets on the white arm.

In the Bee-Loud Glade

I’m adding a new layer to my writing practice and wondered if you want to try it with me. You don’t have to be a writer to do this daily exercise. It will be meaningful to non-writers too, especially right now. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, since before my mom […]

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A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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