Rachael Nevins

For years I’ve encouraged my writing students not to be afraid to use proper nouns in their work: the

I first drafted these words last night, at the end of a frustrating work day—yet another day on which

Last year was the first in a decade that I did not go to see the Bluebell Wood in bloom

My Writers Studio colleague Lisa Bellamy often describes the “healthy jealousy” that arises when a writer encounters work that excites

Maxwell’s Demon, a being postulated by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in his 1871 book Theory of Heat, plays

Since last summer I’ve been a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College.

In March and April, I’d dream that we had come to the lake, and in my dreams I’d

In the episode “Where There Is a Will” of This American Life, producer David Kestenbaum wrestles with the possibility that

When I told a friend that I long to create a spacious container (i.e., an orderly home and routines)