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08.27.2010

Join us for a reading and reception to celebrate the release of our new collection of Sunbeams, Paper Lanterns: More Quotations from the Back Pages of The Sun. Click here for details.

06.15.2010

Jane Churchon's essay “The Dead Book” [February 2009] has been selected to appear in The Best American Essays 2010 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Click here for details.

06.08.2010

Two selections first published in The Sun have been awarded the Pushcart Prize, which honors exceptional writing from America’s small presses. Click here for details.

04.21.2010

The Sun will host a gathering on October 22–24 in Big Sur, California. Click here for details.

04.15.2010

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The Sun Interview

Quiet, Please

Gordon Hempton On The Search For Silence In A Noisy World

by Leslee Goodman

“When I’m in a place where I’m able to hear for a thousand square miles – such as in the Kalahari Desert – that’s transformative. In silence like that we remember our genetic roots, our purpose, and our connection to all things.”

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

There's No Such Thing As A Free Association

by Lad Tobin

A father who won’t talk and a mother who won’t stop

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Across The River

by Nikolina Kulidžan

A woman returns to the divided city of her birth

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Fiction

The Clothes He Wore

by Josie Charlotte Jackson

“Normally I wouldn’t have found them, because I am an exceptionally lazy housekeeper.”

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The World In Red

by Theresa Williams

“Immediately after the funeral, Floreta fled for the coast.”

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Poetry

Cold Solace

by Anna Belle Kaufman
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Readers Write

Beauty

by Our Readers

A teenager’s nose job, a grandmother’s hair, a boy who loves dresses

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New Book: Paper Lanterns
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In This Issue

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Sunbeams

If you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living.

Mel Brooks

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Letter to the Editor

If you’re thinking about writing us a letter, give in to the temptation.

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