Arvin Ram
@ArvinRam1
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'22 @MacDowell1907 Fellow '22 @writingxwriters Hemingway House Res. '20 @onestorymag Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow Words @JellyfishReview @aaww @thenormalschool
Crested Butte, CO
Joined September 2011
Thank you @hannahtinti and everyone @onestorymag for this enormous opportunity! Also, thank you to the Talve-Goodman family. I can't wait to work with all of you.
Our 2019 fellow was the extraordinary @Nayolithic. Now welcome our new 2020 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow, @ArvinRam1!
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As a book editor, I give feedback day in and day out. And any seasoned writer knows just how valuable and transformative a thoughtful critique can be. But when you have a new draft that's ready for feedback, the next steps can be confusing. Too many writers ask the wrong person
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The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.
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Even if the first 90% of your novel is stellar, if the ending... -feels contrived -is rushed -drags on for too long ...your story won't land. Here are 6 weak endings that ruin otherwise amazing stories — and how to avoid them.
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A little about my brain and a bit of pep talk: I spent two years developing a project-wrote the script, nurtured the vision, and even had a lead actor interested in starring. But they insisted the script be rewritten by a woman, so the producers paid someone else to do just
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I am pleased to share that my essay is up @The_Rumpus. Huge thanks to @JanikaOza and @RobbieMaakestad for their editorship. Do read. 😌 https://t.co/PkDkHuYCnL
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The books are on the floor, side by side. I begin to pick them up one by one. Lying beneath two old books is this one. The author’s name screams in white on a red strip at the top of the front cover.
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they're literally trying to sneak a clause in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that PREVENTS THE REGULATION OF AI FOR 10 YEARS. why isn't EVERYONE sounding the alarm about this???
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A mother took her three sons to a routine ICE check-in. Moments later, her eldest two were gone without even a chance to say goodbye. https://t.co/dZvJxIenCQ
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Alma Lopez Diaz took her three sons with her to a regular ICE check-in. Moments later, her eldest two were gone.
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You know @brentjlaney is a mtn town legend when still see his bike almost 10 years after he left.
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to Teow Lim Goh's Epic Poem, 'Bitter Creek.' This profound, important, and timely work is out in the world and available everywhere you find books. "Outstanding." —THE UTAH REVIEW
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Small Colorado outdoor manufacturers are wilting as tariffs, declining spending and international anger conjure a costly storm https://t.co/i0uGLHS6SO
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Small Colorado outdoor manufacturers are struggling as tariffs, declining spending and international anger conjure a costly storm
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Putting out a pitch call for Esquire: If any AAPI writers want to send me their incredibly thoughtful and well written essays that reflect on media, film, tv, music that's prescient and resonates with our current cultural climate, please send them to me: sirena.he@hearst.com
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I'm laughing but also crying
Before telling us where we went wrong, please take a moment to acknowledge the courage and gall it takes to attempt such an impossible feat. https://t.co/LszwbireQT
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For 15 years I've watched CO town after CO town fail to meet the challenge of housing when all signs pointed to a potential housing crisis. Now we're living in an unsustainable economy that teeters on how much people want to live in beautiful places for not enough pay.
1. On a recent night, the following people fell asleep in their cars in a fancy ski town: Two ski instructors, two snow plow drivers, a ski lift operator, an ice fishing guide, an employee of a ski shop who fits people for their boots, as well as two ER nurses who treat the
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Join us in Crested Butte next month for the Mountain Words Festival 👇👇👇📚📚📚
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I stepped out of a new patient’s consult to have this peer to peer call at the only time offered to me. You may remember an insurance company recently insisting that they’d never interrupt patient care for insurance matters. Reality Check…it happens all the time. The doctor I
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach said playing Ben Grimm / The Thing in ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS’ felt like “home” to him. “Jack Kirby wrote this character [of Ben Grimm] as a bit of an homage to his father, and to the streets that he grew up on. I’m a New Yorker, and I’ve spent a lot
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