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Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley's All the World Beside
I met Garrard Conley at a dinner in Boston years ago. Within minutes we were comparing our evangelical upbringings and cackling like old friends. He was…
Mar 30
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Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau's Lessons For Survival
Emotional recurrences in families have fascinated me as long as I can remember. As I explain in Ancestor Trouble, “the more I feed my fixations, the…
Mar 12
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Maud Newton
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February 2024
Family stories we (tell ourselves we) can't tell
Hi friends, I’m experimenting with not explaining myself after an absence. So: I’m back! I’ve got a one-day afternoon workshop coming up from the Miami…
Feb 3
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Maud Newton
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November 2023
Wishes amid the Thinning Veil
My sister took this photo of our mom and me in May 1998, in Asheville, after our granny (our mom’s mom) died. When I was younger, all I could see in it…
Nov 2, 2023
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Maud Newton
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September 2023
No care plan outside of the Rapture
Hi friends, Over the past century, my family has given enormous amounts of money to extreme evangelical preachers. After my great-grandmother in Dallas…
Sep 26, 2023
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Maud Newton
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August 2023
So many ancestor links
Hi friends, I’ve got an abundance of reading recommendations and links to share—they’ve been piling up around here for two months (busy summer)! But…
Aug 29, 2023
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Maud Newton
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June 2023
Editorial offerings, and paperback revisions
Dear friends, I’m an editor as well as a writer by trade, and occasionally fellow writers express interest in working with me, one-on-one, on their…
Jun 21, 2023
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Maud Newton
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May 2023
Thinning Blood, links, and class last call
Dear friends, I’ve been writing in so many directions lately—it’s fun to experiment right now—and designing some editorial offerings that I’ll share…
May 31, 2023
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Maud Newton
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This summer: Groove, in the heart
Sebene Selassie's upcoming class. My Family History With Imagination class. Also, Ava Chin, Latria Graham, Nanette Vonnegut, Prachi Gupta, Kelly Link…
May 7, 2023
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Maud Newton
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March 2023
Family history with imagination
I'm teaching a class, the Ancestor Trouble paperback is coming out, and more.
Mar 27, 2023
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Maud Newton
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February 2023
Offering and receiving what is offered
Toward the start of every session of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble class I’m teaching, we explicitly invite in kindness and spaciousness around the…
Feb 28, 2023
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Maud Newton
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Offering and receiving what is offered
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January 2023
Doorways and collages and novels and more
Dear friends, I’ve been gearing up to teach my Writing About Ancestor Trouble class, which starts next Tuesday (it’s full! I’ll let you know if I teach…
Jan 20, 2023
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Maud Newton
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