The Work of Staying With a Question

A long conversation about attention, doubt, and the sentences that refuse to leave us alone.

By Mara Venn · Interview

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Inside this issue

Interview The Work of Staying With a Question Mara Venn 6

Criticism A Grammar of Small Weather Julian Orr 18

Fiction The Orchard at the Edge of the Map Lena Duarte 26

Notebook Notes Toward a Private Atlas Mara Venn 34

Interview The Sentence as Shelter Iris Bell 40

Criticism A Room With No Center Julian Orr 48

Fiction The Blue Hour of the Field Nora Vale 56

Notebook On Borrowed Light Lena Duarte 64

Interview The Shape of Listening Mara Venn 72

Criticism A Brief Defense of the Margin Julian Orr 80

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