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Category: Detention Book Club

Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison is the Most Underrated Writer’s Guide.

Not enough people have read my favorite book on writing. Every year I read 25–50 books on the art and craft of writing. While all the books I read become reference books. I’ve read Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison cover to cover three times. I love it because it teaches you to write better prose by first learning …

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I Miss Fighting With You.

How did Vaisya unlearn communication? Vaisya lingered on the video call, watching her best friend Rachel fidget with her necklace — a nervous habit she’d recognized from college. Fifteen years ago, they’d solidified their best friend status by going horse debating everything from foreign policy to third wave feminism. Rankling over who was a better …

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From Time Loops to Monster Hunts: What’s Next for the Detention Book Club

Are you part of our mailing list? Because if you are, then you know I didn’t do my homework last time because life got in the way. But this time, the odds are stacked in my favor in so many ways: 1. My niece is now healthy and well (modern medicine is a game changer!) …

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‘Over the Rainbow’ is a Song about Detention

The crazy reason I sometimes miss detention is the same reason I miss a lot of probably unpleasant things: fear of missing out.  I know what you’re thinking—the point of detention is that you’re detained. You, in your teenage prime, after 7 hours of school, have to sit for another hour of school, but drained …

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When Good Girls Get Detention they Get PHDs

We’re all good with detention’s bad rap. It’s school after school, worse than school itself. Study hall for those who didn’t study in the first place, which is either the aptest or the least apt punishment, depending on your sense of irony. I’m starting up a book club with my super nerd friends, Daniel Andrew …

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