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Rick Hoffman is the author of the novels A Long Way Down (2024), Seven-Sided Son of a Bitch (2022), and The Devils That Haunt You (2016), as well as the short story collection The Broken Places (2019) and a fully annotated edition of The Great Gatsby for students and teachers (2023). He was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Mississippi and Louisiana, and he currently lives in New York, where he teaches English and mythology at a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon high school. His fiction has appeared various print and online publications, and he was a 2017 Best of the Net nominee for his short story “Biyanî,” about a Yazidi woman fleeing genocide in Northern Iraq.
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A To-Do List for Shut-Ins: Some Recommendations for COVID-19 Social Distancing

Right about now you’re probably starting to get cabin fever. That is, if it hasn’t hit you full force already. As many of you know, I went through a bit of a tough time with my health two years ago. After the initial crisis, there was a period of recovery, during which I was unable to go to work. Those who have had health issues understand what that’s like. So, when it comes to spending months mos Read more of this blog post »
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“He lay down in his blankets. It was growing dark, long late mid-summer twilight in the woods. He wanted to go down to the river to bathe but he felt too bad. He turned over and looked at the small plot of ground in the crook of his arm. My life is ghastly, he told the grass.”
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Cormac McCarthy
“He lay down in his blankets. It was growing dark, long late mid-summer twilight in the woods. He wanted to go down to the river to bathe but he felt too bad. He turned over and looked at the small plot of ground in the crook of his arm. My life is ghastly, he told the grass.”
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