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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

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Grassy area of blithe wood on the Bard College Campus overlooking the Hudson River with a single adirondack chair in the distance and blue sky

Assembling Rabbit Hill

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper that we were still working […]

Featured Work

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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