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2021

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Tina Ontiveros

An Original Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner Tina Ontiveros

My brother and I made our dad’s headstone ourselves. We bought a bag of Quikrete from Home Depot. We built a form, poured the cement, and carefully pressed metal letters in as the slab cured. We kept the words simple; Loyd’s name, relevant dates, and a fragment of his favorite poem. If you love something, …

Oct

21

2015

Between You & Me

Between You & Me:
Confessions of a Commma Queen
by Mary Norris

“Ever wondered about all those commas or strange word breaks in the venerable New Yorker? Longtime copy editor Mary Norris offers readers a delicious hybrid of a book–part memoir and part grammar guide. Hers was not a direct path to the copy desk, where she’s spent the last 30 years. Her first job was inspecting feet …