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Leigh Newman’s story collection NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE is forthcoming in April 2022 from Scribner. Her memoir about growing up in Alaska, STILL POINTS NORTH was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard prize. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s,The Paris Review, One Story, Tin House, Electric Literature and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and have been awarded the Pushcart and the American Society of Magazine Editor's fiction prizes, as well as selected for Best American Short Stories anthology. In 2020, she received f the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize for “humor, wit, and sprezzatura.”

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Patuk Glenn. Barrow. Curator Iñupiat...



ON TOP OF THE WORLD 


Patuk Glenn. Barrow. Curator Iñupiat Heritage Center. Dangers of America’s northernmost city: helping pull in whale, dad calls, ice to break. Escaped. (Those not so lucky —> helicopter rescue.) Sadly, danger increases each year due climate change. Happily, wouldn’t trade life at the top of the world for anything. 

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“If you can't be yourself with yourself, how can you be you with other people?”
Leigh Newman, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

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