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A funny thing that happens when you’re a writer is you find yourself in text and dm threads with other writers, the subject of which is mostly all the…
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French Edition
Y’all wanna see something cool? Before anyone else gets to see it? Fuck yeah. So awhile back, my book sold in France to Les Éditions du Portrait. I…
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Ripe peaches
a dust bowl story
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A question for Lambda Literary
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Sometimes leaving's pretty easy actually
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Paris
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Dolly Parton, Nashville TN
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Mosquito Lake, Colorado
I dream of a place where I’m not making coffee on my toilet box. Badreads is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work…
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Amarillo by someday I guess.
Watch now (1 min) | I don’t usually paywall posts. When I do, it’s not because I think this is extremely good shit and you should pay me to read it. I…
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Dwight Yoakam is not from Bakersfield
I feel like he lied to me. He didn’t. I don’t even know the guy. But I was rolling towards Bakersfield, past signs for pistachios, then almonds, then…
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Sometimes the trip takes you
I should’ve had a bad day. Woke up to a very bad day but Woody knew I was awake. He’d been staring at me for seconds or hours, waiting for me to open my…
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California, the part in the middle
Thousands of people are killed in California every year by falling pine cones. This isn’t true, not that I know of. But it might be. The pine cones here…
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Switchbacks
Elizabeth McCracken’s been writing these early morning swim reports. Elizabeth McCracken is a name I drop whenever possible. I don’t know if you know…
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Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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