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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Isabel Wilkerson…. Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1994. She is also

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Kate Elizabeth Russell…. A client of mine recommended I read the Kate Elizabeth Russell novel My Dark Vanessa and when I checked out

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Patrick Radden Keefe… Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and one of the most remarkable

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors by Sameer Pandya…. A professor of creative writing and Asian American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sameer Pandya

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Jean Kyoung Frazier… I like reading debut novels. While they are usually flawed, they often spark with little shards of brightness. Such

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Rumaan Alam…. An American writer of Bangladeshi origin, Rumaan Alam, studied writing at Oberlin College and currently lives in New

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from writer Sharon Harrigan… As a mother of triplets, I have more than a passing interest in multiples. Perhaps that’s why I was

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Michael Lewis…. Many readers know Michael Lewis (pictured above) from his ultra-successful book The Big Short, about the 2008 financial crisis. (It

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Emma Donoghue…. I am a fan of the writing of Emma Donoghue, pictured above. The Irish-Canadian writer achieved significant fame in 2010