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Paul Crenshaw

Paul Crenshaw  is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You and This We’ll Defend. His work has also appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House.

Smoke Out

Smoke Out

Lighting up as the world is burning down

by Paul Crenshaw | Monday, November 02, 2020

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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