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Reviewers for the New York Times, NPR, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and many other publications, have raved about his new collection of stories, VOLT. Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review. Library Journal said this: "Heathcock is a writer to…

This week's Monday Poem, "By the Lake," was written by Richard O. Moore, poet, producer, and co-founder of the first listener-supported community radio station.

"Past years are figures in old glass

wobbly in a lake

wrinkled by a stone."

And this evening, The Write Question features Jenny Shank. Her new novel, The…

Let's say you can't tell a trout from a tarpon, you think a bonefish is a fossil and that a fly shop sells airplane parts. Well then, fishing is probably not your passion. But that shouldn't stop you from reading Jeff Hull's collection of personal essays,…

The Western Oregon Termination Act of August 1954 stripped the Siletz people of federal tribal recognition. They lost all their remaining lands and all federal assistance. Charles Wilkinson worked with the tribe as legal council during their fight to end the tribe's termination status with the federal government.

A few years ago, the Siletz asked Wilkinson to write their history. He did, and the book is…

This week's Monday Poem from The Write Question is from Lowell Jaeger's latest collection, WE.

I love these lines:

 "...she could boil such luxuries loose from bones. And fill

our cups with her glad battered face,

so that when we left her we strode

back into…