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Roberta Silman

Roberta Silman is the author of the story collection Blood Relations and of three novels, Boundaries, The Dream Dredger, and Beginning the World Again. She writes regularly for the online magazine The Arts Fuse.

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The Swiveling Light of Truth

Remembering Grace Paley and her wise, fierce, funny, sad, innovative short stories

by Roberta Silman | Monday, September 01, 2008
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Without Wendy

by Roberta Silman | Sunday, March 01, 2009
The Sugar Road

The Sugar Road

George has never spoken a word. He's not like other boys. What risk is there in trying to unlock the secrets of his silence?

by Roberta Silman | Monday, March 25, 2013
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2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”