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first-lines

October 20, 2015

First Lines of Great Novels That Describe My First Year Teaching Middle School Literature

by Rachel Rodgers
September 24, 2009

Entries from the Index of First Lines in Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959-2009 Taken as a True/False Quiz

by Georgia Cool
May 13, 2002

Rejected First Lines for My Personal Ad

by Aaron Lester
January 14, 2002

First Lines to Books I Won’t Write

by Jim Behrle
July 7, 2000

Index of First Lines

by Greg Purcell

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November 8, 2024

Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe

by Amanda Lehr
November 13, 2024

Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

by Lisa Borders
November 14, 2024

An Open Letter from the Other Side of the World to the 50.2 Percent of Americans Who Probably Won’t Read This and the 48.1 Percent Who Might

by Sachin S. Solanki
November 6, 2024

Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad

by Carlos Greaves

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