Editor’s Note: Our resident Poet Laureate, Ian Mcleod, shares his thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness. You can read more of our thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness here. Time to take a position
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One of my favorite recipes, yet another random discovery on some long-forgotten cooking blog, this South African steak masala sandwich will become one of your favorites as well. This is a recipe
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(I’ll be devoting this post to a brief bio of Smith, and this book, but the short stories and novellas will be important next time. And then we’ll come back and examine
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So many recipes start with a story. But this doesn’t, but I’ll write one after. This is a Thai-style omelette, as I prefer to cook it. However, I will explicate as we
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Editor’s Note: Ian first posted this at his site. The other Sunday, I did the whole “cook for my bros” thing as has been a weekly thing of late. I took an
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The book. Not the movie. If you can even call Verhoeven’s bastardization “Starship Troopers” at all. Robert A. Heinlein is an increasingly controversial figure in recent years, moreso than he was in his lifetime.
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Edgar Allan Poe–favorite poet of goth teenagers, Lovecraftian horror fans, and other denizens of fine non-chain coffee-shops all across the fruited plain. Poet and author, he was inventor of what became the
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Regale me with tales of woe and glory, of heroes at resplendent feasts and maidens kidnapped by Zeus-as-beast. Leave out the unpleasant parts, and avoid witches and dark arts. In fact, just
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Given the rhyme, it may be important to point out that Ovid ain’t COVID, and there isn’t an ancient Roman conspiracy theory involved here, despite the disease’s transformation of our society over
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This work, if any, was one of the most influential on my own development as a writer. I’m going to keep this one brief, because it’s a relatively short book and you
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Surely you know this poem by T.S. Eliot. You’ve heard bits and pieces, quotes. You’ve seen Apocalypse Now. It’s so influential as to almost be overused, but there is a reason for that:
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