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01.27.2012
An Evening with The Sun in Chicago, IL

Join Sy Safransky, founder and editor of The Sun, along with contributors Poe Ballantine, Krista Bremer, and Cheryl Strayed, for a free reading at The Heartland Café, Saturday, March 3. Click here for details.

01.05.2012
Writing retreats in 2012

Join Sun authors and readers, as well as editor and publisher Sy Safransky, for one of our lively weekends of writing, reflection, and inspiration. The Sun will host two gatherings this year. Click here for details.

01.03.2012
Does The Sun shine in your neighborhood?

Would copies of The Sun brighten up the magazine rack of your local bookstore, coffee shop, co-op, or other hangout? Click here to let us know.

11.21.2011
Writing from The Sun receives Honorable Mention in the Best American Series and The Pushcart Prize Anthology

Authors include Poe Ballantine, John Frank, Louis B. Jones, Marjorie Kemper, Nikolina Kulidžan, Lee Strickland, and Lad Tobin. Click here for a list of the selections.

The Sun Interview

Oh Baby

Ina May Gaskin On The Medicalization Of Birth

by Pat MacEnulty

“We have come to believe that our human bodies are not as well designed for birth as other mammals’ are. Really it’s our brains that can pose problems: we alone among mammals have the ability to scare and confuse ourselves about birth.”

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Bruised

by Joe Wilkins

The black-eye blues

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Hold Everything Lightly And Nothing Will Hurt Us

by Heather Kirn Lanier

Falling for a monk

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A Country Where You Once Lived

by Sheryl St. Germain

Life after sex?

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Fiction

I Just Died

by Evan James

“Maybe I’ve been brought to this glamourless public library for a Cosmically Significant Reason. Maybe my dread is merely the overture before a more expansive feeling of rightness that awaits me if I venture farther into this harshly lit temple of knowledge.”

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Poetry

Snowstorm

by John Bargowski
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Readers Write

Boxes

by Our Readers

Navigating a hoarder’s house, packing up a classroom, surviving solitary confinement

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Contributors

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Sy Safransky’s
Notebook

It took twice as long as I thought it would, and it’s only half as good as I’d hoped, but the first draft of my book is finished. This morning our cat Zooey walked across my desk and vomited on the manuscript. My first bad review.

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Sunbeams

Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I’d have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.

Rita Rudner

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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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