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Great Mountain Forest to host Nature Writing Retreat at Historic Yale Camp in Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 7 to 9

“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.

On being a writer: From poet to novelist

After poetry’s compressed, telegraphic form, I couldn’t let all the nouns and verbs just hang out in sentences.

LAURA DIDYK: It Takes All Kinds

All characters are works of fiction; any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.

LEONARD QUART: On writing a eulogy

I try to evoke my friends in a way that makes them come alive, always understanding by choice and by ultimate lack of knowledge -- that I have merely scratched the surface.

BOB GRAY: Kindred Spirits

He seemed about my age, and I appreciated, as he read, what I understood as resonances of both vigor and mortality.

SHORT STORY: The Reading

This is sixth story from Jonathan Baumbach’s forthcoming collection, “The Pavilion of Former Wives,” to be published by Danzig.

Writer’s Life: No time like the present  

Here you are at seventy, somehow enjoying the opportunity to make meaning out of your own life, an antidote to the mayhem all around you.

A Writer Recommends: A literary column

When you read “A Writer Recommends,” think of me as that friend who says, “You have to read this.” These will be books I love.
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The Edge Is Free To Read.

But Not To Produce.