The Naked Opinion

So, you’ve just received your BA. Maybe your Masters. You’re a twenty-something young gun fresh off the campus. And you’re a writer. Or you want to be a writer. You want to make a name for yourself. You know it all. You’ve got the world by the balls. You have a plan. Or do...
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A Naked Opinion by Joe Smith These are the end times. Not because North Korea and Iran will soon have the bomb; not because the partisan rancor in Congress and across the nation threatens to destroy our country; not because the popularity of Hannah Montana continues unabated. No, these are the end times of...
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a Naked Opinion by Bruce Hodder I may get into it at some juncture, but right now the return of the football season bores me to tears. It only seems two seconds since the last one finished, for Heaven’s sake. And what is football, when all’s said and done? Twenty-two people trying to prevent each...
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In his recent article in Poets & Writers, Timothy Schaffert* quotes Jason Sanford as saying that once outsiders succeed in breaking in (the gates of the literary establishment) they become exactly what they were trying to overthrow. I suppose there are people who fit that description, but they are not who I think of when...
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Recently I met a guy who was getting his PhD in creative writing. I had to ask him to repeat himself, because I thought I had misheard. He said it again. “They’re offering doctorates for that now?” I wondered aloud, slightly amazed. As if I didn’t feel inadequate enough, high school graduate that I...
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