Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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February 9, 2011

Short Takes

By Grant Johnson

For your sweetheart, a top 10 Nabokov the lepidopterist (bonus points if you already knew that word) and ah! those memoirists (what to call her?) getting younger and younger talk […]

September 13, 2010

ShortTakes

By Grant Johnson

Happy Dahl Day (and month!) “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those […]

August 2, 2010

Short Takes

By Grant Johnson

good to the last drop, contemplating the intersection between writing and drinking and meals in literature the e-tide continues to rise, some push back Get the crash cart, cause once […]