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Learning about My Home Country’s History While Working Abroad

I went abroad to learn about living in the US and ended up learning about my home country’s history too.

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Exit from Paradise

Reading Monique Verdin’s “Return to Yakni Chitto” while crossing injured lands

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When Publishing is Sacred Stewardship

On editing the magical Naira Kuzmich

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Bringing Order to Disorder

On the difference between copyediting fiction vs. academic writing.

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There is More to Know Than Ice Cream

What happens when editing itself needs to be revised?

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Crafting Creativity

One of My Good Son’s intuitive yet essential themes

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Contemporary Austrian Studies or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Footnotes

Decluttering footnotes can spark joy!

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Sorting Poems by Candlelight

It feels corny to invest in the analog to this degree, but if I am being honest, it is also a relief…

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Copyediting Supporting Transgender Students

By Leah Myers, Graduate assistant Reading well-constructed prose is one of life’s joys. Sentences that convey the author’s beliefs and ideas accurately and concisely are a wonder to me. Alex Myers’ Supporting Transgender Students is full of this kind of writing, and it was difficult to not be caught in the words as I was […]

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Iran

On Maryam Rafiee and Humanizing the ‘Big Enemy’