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Catching Up, and a Parable About Yarn
In All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare wrote, "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together" (Act 4, Scene 3).
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Kristen Iversen
Whose Story Is It Anyway? Part One (Memoir)
This week I’m going to talk about a subject that is near and dear to me, one that falls under the general category of the “Ethics of Literary…
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Kristen Iversen
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Changing the World One Story at a Time
On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, I had the remarkable experience of spending time with former Rocky Flats workers to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the…
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Kristen Iversen
Equal on Land and Sea: Margaret Brown, Feminism, John Jacob Astor IV, and My Weird Writing Life
2024 marks the 112th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on her first voyage.
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Kristen Iversen
Fires and Those Who Fight Them
I can say I likely owe my life to some brave firefighters.
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Kristen Iversen
On Vision and Re-Visioning
How many drafts does it take to finish a story, an essay, a book? Short answer: A lot. I think the best advice I can give to any emerging writer is…
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A New Name
I've just returned from a crazy week in New York, where I was able to complete some final research for my forthcoming biography of Nikola Tesla, and…
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