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prairie fly

nicole brackett - Jan 22, 2007

I’m glad to see that Rick Bass’ fantastic essay, “Shy,” is still available over at Narrative. That piece captures, more than most on the subject, the experience of writing from a remote locale. And while I don’t share Bass’ struggle with intense shyness, I do…
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Originally posted at "A Writer and a Rider"
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shapeshifting prophets and the aisle of despair

nicole brackett - Jan 16, 2007

My husband is an avid reader of Fantasy fiction - a literary genre I’ve always found mystifying and vaguely intellectually threatening. This is due, no doubt, to the fact that the Fantasy readers I knew growing up were also members of the Chess Club, the…
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Originally posted at "A Writer and a Rider"
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“A Writer and a Rider”

Author/Editor: nicole brackett
Category: Arts and Culture

About “A Writer and a Rider”

Profession: Academic

location: Northern Arizona, USA

I am a novelist (and instructor of college English and Philosophy) living on a remote Northern Arizona prairie, having just returned here from a year in the happenin' San Francisco Bay Area. My blog explores everything from the relevance of Socrates for writers today to hauling water.

Favorite Authors
John Steinbeck, Lorrie Moore, God, Charles Dickens, Charles Frazier, Milan Kundera, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor

Favorite Topics
Literary fiction, writing, literary criticism, publishing

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