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Stephen Goodwin

Stephen Goodwin is the author of three novels and the nonfiction book Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes.

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, December 03, 2018

We Can’t Make You Whole Again 

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, June 04, 2018

The Aspirational Golf of Arnold Palmer

Ode to the man who brought out the goodness in the game

by Stephen Goodwin | Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Thomas McGuane’s The Longest Silence

A lifelong pursuit of mastery and meaning

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, August 10, 2015

Resisting Atticus’s Allure

On the eve of Harper Lee’s new book release, reconsidering the legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, July 13, 2015

The Zen of Short-Story Writing

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, November 04, 2013

Father’s Day

What he wished for me and what he taught me

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, June 10, 2013

Remembering Robert Stone

The novelist possessed his characters, and was possessed by them

by Stephen Goodwin | Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”