Chapter Openings

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GoodReads Review of Rick Steves’ “Travel as a Political Act”

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Review: “The Gettysburg Review” Summer 2010 Fiction

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Considering Your Critiques

An excellent rubric saved from graduate school at Saint Mary’s College of California’s Fiction, Creative Writing Program, originally distributed in …