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by Chris Mandeville Any hikers out there in writer-land? Or writers who love to go for walks? Well, hiking-slash-walking isn’t just for pleasure-slash-exercise. It can actually be a valuable writing tool. Just ask Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times...

Good morning folks, Carl Levin’s Senate seat is turning red. You read that correctly. Democrats have an expensive problem to solve in Michigan. Instead of Senator Carl Levin cruising to re-election, Democrats now face a very costly open-seat...

As is the annual tradition, here is the final list of books I completed reading in 2016, in chronological order of completion. And as is the typical practice, I've provided links to posts I've written about those books. Annoyingly, continuing the recent...

Installation view, Roni Horn, “Untitled (‘My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two...

On the surface, “Lou” is the story of a tomboy who wants a dog, her older brother whose boss at the pizza parlor is mixed up in unsavory business, what’s striking about cartoonist Melissa Mendes’ story is that while the family dynamics between the three...