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Get Unstuck: A Generative Writing Class

Lucia Berlin's "Cherry Blossom Time"

Jess Arndt’s “Third Arm”

Mary Robison's WHY DID I EVER

Amy Hempel’s “Pool Night”

Barry Hannah's "Coming Close to Donna"

Susan Steinberg's "Universal"

Merritt Tierce's LOVE ME BACK

Valerie Laken's "Family Planning"

Diane Williams’s “All American”

Diane Williams's "Orgasms"

Richard Ford's "Optimists"

Oregon Book Awards

Carole Maso's "Her Ink-Stained Hands"

Mary Gaitskill's "Daisy's Valentine"

Victoria Redel’s “Soul to Take”

Michael Ondaatje's COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER

Rebecca Schiff’s “F = ma”

Heather Lewis’s NOTICE

Sam Lipsyte's "I'm Slavering"

Toni Morrison's JAZZ

Mark Richard’s "Strays"

Renata Adler’s SPEEDBOAT

Garielle Lutz’s “Mine”

Chris Dennis’s "Here is What You Do"

Lisa Taddeo’s ANIMAL

Welcome to First Breath + Eugene Marten's WASTE

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