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What is a friend?
And why I will not see the movie version of Sigrid Nunez' beautiful novel
Jul 12, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Like a prayer
This is not about god but it might be about something sacred
Jan 10
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Elizabeth Marro
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That time I almost blew my lips off...
And Book Report, Part II: what my reading list says about this year
Dec 20, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Happy New Year
Dec 30, 2023
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Elizabeth Marro
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Is being here enough?
Feb 8, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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In my defense, he would not shut up
Oct 12, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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The human touch
Jan 27, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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Feeding the beast
Nov 9, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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The one thing I could still do
Sep 14, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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the writer's journey
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Book Report, Part I
The book I'm writing
Dec 13, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Fear, loathing and the longing to be published
A conversation with R.L. Maizes about her novel, A Complete Fiction
Nov 15, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Small town, big love
The stories behind Robyn Ryle's new novel, Sex of the Midwest
Oct 18, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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A good bio is hard to write
Or maybe I just don't know who I am
Sep 20, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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life
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Like a prayer
This is not about god but it might be about something sacred
Jan 10
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Elizabeth Marro
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Are we our memories?
And other questions prompted by Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einsten: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Jun 28, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Compliance, defiance, resilience
Living as we think we should
Mar 8, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Recommendations
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Attention Economy
Leigh Stein
Dispatch from Bewilderness
Judith Hannah Weiss
Time Travel Kitchen
Jolene Handy
Martha’s Monthly
Martha
Read, Watch, Binge
Luiza B. Campos
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A human's journey courtesy of a dog
Rona Maynard's memoir got me thinking: why dogs, and when?
Aug 31, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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Strangers in a strange land
Summer of 1974: a Pinto, my brother, a lot of rain, and the book that saved us
Jul 6, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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The questions we never ask
and it's our loss
Mar 30, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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The circle is not broken
But it has changed
Feb 24, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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surviving the chaos
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On this Saturday in June
Before we begin…
Jun 14, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Find the funny
Laughing broke the curse and made me brave again
Mar 22, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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Compliance, defiance, resilience
Living as we think we should
Mar 8, 2025
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Elizabeth Marro
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The death of curiosity
When the "news of the world" smothers the light
Nov 23, 2024
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Elizabeth Marro
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