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  • Why the Glassmakers left

    Some readers have asked why the Glassmakers left the city — and too many are asking for it to be a coincidence. I thought I’d…

  • A family photo: my houseplants

    Here they are, all my houseplants, gathered for a group photo. My current apartment has few good windows, so I don’t have many plants, but…

  • Imagine a wall…

    The acknowledgments to Semiosis begin, “I owe thanks to Gregory Frost, whose writing exercise about a special kind of wall led to this novel.” That…

  • How to get published, or, are you smiling when you write?

    I first got paid to write when I was in high school as a columnist for the local newspaper. It was fun, and how many…