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Fame, Ego, Character
There’s a preoccupation with one’s own image of self. And how to make that interesting on the page is to include moments of separation from that…
Apr 2
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Kelly Sather
On Beginnings, and Secret Passions
Beginnings are bright and possible, maybe not for the characters involved, but for the writer.
Feb 17
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Kelly Sather
Favorite Reads of 2025
For me, the thing about time is what kind of understandings and emotions we might find within its curves, when we look beyond points and lines. Here, my…
Dec 30, 2025
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B.T.S.: Panthers on Rodeo
Aug 26, 2025
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L.A. Fires: How to Help
Jan 13, 2025
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On Writing in September
Sep 11, 2024
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Kelly Sather
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Favorite Reads of 2025
Dec 30, 2025
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Fame is not forever
Oct 24, 2023
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Face to face, Britney and Werner
Nov 15, 2023
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On Character & I Love L.A.
A quick note on character, and lip gloss...
Nov 12, 2025
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Sally Mann's iPhone
I don’t read her as saying that artists are insecure, more that an uncertainty of self may drive an artist’s efforts to bring themselves through.
Oct 2, 2025
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B.T.S.: Panthers on Rodeo
The challenge is the middle part, or the middle and ending. And this summer, it’s what scaffolding can get me through this first novel draft.
Aug 26, 2025
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Kelly Sather
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Picture This: On Joan Didion and Mythmaking
Didion’s adjectives arrest attention, metaphors almost out of reach instead reverberate, and the glances into her personal story access our own.
Jun 17, 2025
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Kelly Sather
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How to Write into a Time Lapse
Part of listening to signposts is not caring whether they get you to your best work, they’ll show you somewhere new, likely their role all along.
Feb 18, 2025
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Kelly Sather
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L.A. Fires: How to Help
We grew up with fires in the Palisades and had rarely evacuated, the house was on the other side of town, how could a fire burn through the asphalt and…
Jan 13, 2025
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Favorite Reads of 2024
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Dec 19, 2024
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