Volume 7
An Online Literary Magazine
November 30, 2012

 

We've Always Had Paris...and Provence Excerpt

Nonfiction

Patricia and Walter Wells

 

I was going to prove them wrong, especially one New York Times colleague who had sneered, "You will NEVER make a living as a full-time food writer in Paris!"...

Correct Cakes

Nonfiction

Rick Bailey

 

My first awareness of this skittishness about food came years ago. My grandmother brought home a frying pan coated with Teflon. My grandfather, a cast-iron frying pan man, was skeptical...

The Gift of a Stranger's Touch

Nonfiction

Carolyn Hubbard

 

I stand there, looking at the door, at Salama, at the end of the alley behind her. Headlines about recent kidnappings flash in my head...

 

Clouds Swirl Around the South Face of Denali, the site of some of the most challenging and dangerous climbs in North America.

 

Life is a Mountain: An Interview with Nicholas O'Connell

Interview

Scott Driscoll

 

You sometimes think if you come up with a plan, nature will back off. Anybody with an institutional bureaucratic mentality shares characteristics with Lane. While I don't have anything against this mentality in some contexts, it can be dangerous in high risk situations. Lane's cold, exhausted, and he falls back on what he knows and that turns it into a disaster. I love mountains but I know how unforgiving and harsh they can be. You'd better be willing to change your plans, because if you don't, that's when you die...

The Storms of Denali Excerpt

Fiction

Nick O’Connell

 

The storm caught us in the open, halfway down the southeast ridge of Denali, the highest and coldest mountain in North America. The wind gusted furiously, sandblasting my face with ice pellets and knocking me to my knees....

Ten Things I Learned from Vi Hilbert

Nonfiction

Janet Yoder

 

Your right work is a gift. Vi’s ancestors guided her to her right work—her Lushootseed work—as if they knew all along and were just waiting for Vi to know...

Too Hot, Too Cold, Rarely Just Right

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

Some books are published quickly, but most require a huge amount of time and effort to win final acceptance...

 

 

 

 

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