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Scott Stevens

Reads
Patrick Phillips discusses judging for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and shares his wisdom on the study and craft of poetry. (Photo: Marion Ettlinger)

Pulitzers and poetic forms: An interview with Patrick Phillips

Scott Stevens
  •  
May 19, 2020
Reads
"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," "Runaway" and others are featured as reads' writers recommendations for Valentine's Day 2020. (Photo: Penguin Books)

Loving lit: Valentine’s Day reads

Scott Stevens, Maya Czeneszew, Shana E. Hadi and Betty He
  •  
Feb. 11, 2020
Reads
Yukiko Motoya's "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" paints domestic life with a magical realist coat, exploring the lives of characters isolated from society or caught in the classic battle between the sexes. (Photo: Maudlin House)

The lonesome storybuilder

Scott Stevens
  •  
Feb. 4, 2020
Arts & Life
"Holidays on Ice" by David Sedaris contains a collection of essays about Christmas, decorated with his trademark humor and merriment. (Photo: Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company)

Reads for the end of the year

Maya Czeneszew, Scott Stevens, Shana E. Hadi and Mark York
  •  
Dec. 1, 2019
Arts & Life
"New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction" collects creatively and richly told stories that all fit within a remarkably concise word count. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A medley of microfictions

Scott Stevens
  •  
Nov. 20, 2019
Arts & Life
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Meditations on ‘The Book of Questions’

Scott Stevens
  •  
Nov. 6, 2019
Arts & Life
Halloween (and surrounding weeks) are the ideal time to read these mysterious, ghostly, and contemplative tales. (Photo: Mark York/The Stanford Daily)

Spooktacular Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Scott Stevens, Lily Nilipour, Maya Czeneszew, Nicole Wesson, Roberta Gonzalez Marquez, Shana E. Hadi and Mark York
  •  
Oct. 30, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Feb. 14, 2019
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of "We Were the Mulvaneys" (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles the fall of an American family in ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’

Scott Stevens
  •  
Feb. 8, 2019
Arts & Life
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" complicates genre conventions and conceptions of gender (courtesy of Flickr).

Reading for new beginnings

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens, Carly Taylor, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Jan. 28, 2019
Arts & Life
This Thanksgiving, take time to check out these meaningful books (DELAWARE LIBRARIES/Flickr).

Reads of gratefulness

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Carly Taylor, Sarah Kim, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Nov. 15, 2018
Arts & Life
The Reads beat recommends some spine-chilling stories for Halloween (BRIAN HERZOG/Flickr).

Bewitching Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Olivia Manes, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Oct. 31, 2018
In "Reader, Come Home," Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf considers literacy in the digital age (TODD CHENEY/UCLA).

‘Reader, Come Home’ discusses the difficulty of staying literate

Scott Stevens
  •  
Oct. 24, 2018
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Falling into an obsessive love with George Eliot

Scott Stevens
  •  
Feb. 1, 2018
(Photo: Flickr)

The joy of committing (to memory)

Scott Stevens
  •  
Jan. 17, 2018
The Stanford Daily

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