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There are days I’ll go back to his Facebook page and the angel wings photo that hasn’t changed. But then there are days when his page will come to me. I swallow the rock in my throat.

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“Hey, Kate…” There was a long pause before she asked, “Did you hear about Jen?”

My stomach dropped immediately. I knew what was coming, I just knew.

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As soon as I sat down at my new station, I knew I was in trouble.

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For close to 10 years, Blurb has been a go-to source of high-production family albums and gift-quality photo books. The San Francisco platform now recommends a “Dream Team” of specialists, in an attempt to woo self-publishers of all types of books.

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She invited me to the lit party as well. It would celebrate writers, and people who knew writers, and bloggers who once dated people who called themselves writers.

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‘Broad City,’ farcical through and through, asks us to suspend disbelief.

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16 types of nonfiction, how “truthful” they are, and tips on how to write them.

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Susan Sontag’s early journals guide us through those tumultuous years of our teens and twenties when emotional intelligence is trying to grow up alongside the rest of our brain, but can’t seem to keep from falling behind.

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Sometimes if I’m walking with someone I don’t know very well I think about how pieces of a building could collapse on us in a freak accident and then we’d forever be tied by some thing that happened to us that neither of us could control. I think about how embarrassing it would be to watch a stranger bleed out.

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If the key to a good marriage is to treat it like a corporation, the few of us left in this country who still believe in the institution will probably abstain, thanks.