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Dirty Wars Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
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Jill Owens: IMG Anthony Marra: The Powells.com Interview
| 0 comments By Jill Owens

Interviews | Yesterday, 12:00pm

Anthony Marra Jill: Why did you want to write about Chechnya during the wars? Did you feel at all strange about taking that on, as an American writer?

Marra: Yes, absolutely. I was actually thinking about this earlier this morning -- thinking about where the book actually began. I think it may have begun as far back as when I was 18, when my younger sister had had some spinal surgery and there were a lot of complications. She was in a hospital in Delaware for three or four months. It was touch and go for a little while. I would go up there and visit every weekend. I remember spending a lot of time walking around this, by and large, empty hospital.

So I thought about the idea of the relationship between patients and surgeons, and the families of these patients and surgeons. It's almost a spiritual connection between the two. You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.

I didn't really act upon it until I came to Chechnya as a subject... Continue

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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Augusten Burroughs: IMG Powell's Q&A: Augusten Burroughs
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Q&A | April 17, 2013

This Is How speaks to what I believe is the most essential component of survival or achievement: seeing the actual, rock-bottom, elemental truth and accepting it. But because truth can often be cloaked in what we assume or believe or have been told is "true," being truthful with respect to our circumstances isn't as easy or as obvious as it may appear.

As just one example, I was suicidal as a young teenager, and only by realizing and then fully grasping on a deep level the fact that I didn't actually want to die... Continue

This Is How This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
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Monica Drake: IMG Making It Work
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Guests | April 18, 2013

I am one small part of the best writing workshop ever to exist in the entire time-space continuum.

What's that -- you question my assertion? You're already doubting the memoir I haven't yet written? Go ahead, parse the definition of "workshop." Hold up the Bloomsbury group, the Algonquin Round Table, a history of Native American story tradition, the "tribe scribe," Greek orators and students, the apprenticeship of Chinese storytellers... Continue

The Stud Book The Stud Book
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Makini Howell: IMG Two Fava Bean Dishes for Spring
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Recipes | April 15, 2013

Grains, grains, grains. I have fallen in love with grain bowls and it shows here. Faro and Israeli couscous combined make for a nutty, hearty, but somehow still light, dish. The grape almond dressing makes this dish an amazing... Continue

Plum Plum: Gratifying Vegan Dishes from Seattle's Plum Bistro
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Urban Waite: IMG The Dark Side
| 0 comments By Urban Waite

Original Essays | April 16, 2013

Every night after I finish work, I sit down to write this essay, and every night I fail. And failure, believe it or not, is one of the best things that can happen to a writer. Trying to write and then coming up short is all part of the process. It means that the writing hasn't measured up. It means the work can be better and this goal of something better is what's important.

One of the best tips I've received on talking about my work is to give the reader something they cannot find in the pages of my novels. So let's start there. I failed myself... Continue

The Carrion Birds The Carrion Birds
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John-Paul Flintoff: IMG We Can Be Heroes (Yes, You Too)
| 0 comments By John-Paul Flintoff

Guests | Yesterday, 10:01am

Recently, I was feeling stuck with a problem I couldn't resolve. So I asked Nelson Mandela for advice.

I don't need to tell you the details, because the advice was given in strict confidence. But I strongly recommend that if you too get stuck you try getting in touch with Nelson yourself.

And if Nelson can't help, ask somebody else. Oprah Winfrey, perhaps... Continue

How to Change the World (School of Life) How to Change the World (School of Life)
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Jon Bell: IMG The Trails We've Tread
| 0 comments By Jon Bell

Original Essays | April 18, 2013

They have been on the move for the past half-year or so now, starting from their longtime home in the downstairs closet, on to my desk, then to my office floor, upstairs into another closet, back down next to my desk, then back upstairs. I am supposed to get rid of them; Amy almost has more than once. But so far, I have not been able to. Just when I feel I'm ready to immortalize them in picture, and maybe words, one final time before parting, something comes up and back they go. It's not like I can't let them go, or won't -- I will. I just haven't yet. Part of it is procrastination, yes, but part of it, I know, is reluctance to let go, broken down and nearly lifeless as they are now... Continue

On Mount Hood On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak
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