December 2002

The Writer

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Features

Rick Bragg on the art of storytelling

By Elfrieda Abbe

The author of Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin' on the challenge of telling the stories of your life straight and true, with grace and wit.

Departments

Breakthrough

A Rip Van Winkle tale: A 19-year-old's aphorisms took on a life of their own becoming--34 years later--the author's inspirational hit, The Paradoxical Commandments. By Kent M. Keith.

Syntax

Letters

Dear Writer

How to find the right agent.

@Deadline

Holding the reader's interest

Net//Working

Poet to poet

Bottom line

WriteStuff

Market focus

Writers wanted

A preview of Words and Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, plus markets, contests and events.