In his 2017 piece for @AssayJournal, @taybro1987 breaks down Brian Doyle’s "Dawn and Mary." It’s a masterclass in powerful minimalism.

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Today's Spotlight is Floreani's wonderful "Sewing and Telling" from Assay 6.1. Floreani "articulates the potential subversions of our cultural assumptions about what we make—or don’t." 🪡

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In his piece for Assay issue 8.2, Michael Cox explores a masterclass in how a single sentence and a deleted paragraph can change the entire soul of a story.

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