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Feb 6, 2012 — Diane Lefer: I’m leaving for Bolivia…supposed to do workshops similar to what I did in Colombia,  trying not to be anxious. I was supposed to be collaborating with an artist from Argentina but the Bolivia/Argentina borders are closed due to a dispute over gas fields so Silvana can’t get there. And the nonprofit is having financial trouble — what a surprise — so instead of a hotel they’re accommodating me on the office floor. In Mexican Spanish, ups and downs and unforeseen complications are peripecias, but apparently that’s not standard Spanish and I’m afraid the Bolivians didn’t know what I was talking about. The word looked familiar and I realized it’s from Greek drama — peripateia — reversal of fortune though apparently in modern Greek it means adventure. So I’ve decided this is all an adventure, not a problem.

Feb 5, 2012 — Gwen Mullins Alegre: I’ve been meaning to tell you that three of the pieces you and I worked on together in my last semester have been published. Two of them were ones I started and finished under you; the other is one I started my first semester then revised and finished the final semester. All of them were influenced by your advice and editorial rants suggestions , and the one in PANK even features an audio recording of the piece that I chose not to read aloud during my graduate reading. “Sometimes Dying Is the Right Thing To Do” comes out in print later this year in Eclipse, a journal out of Glendale, CA put out by Bart Edelman. “In the Morning”  (formerly known as “Spank Me in the Morning”) was published online at The Monarch Review earlier this year. “Domestic Violence” was published online at PANK last month. This was interesting because I had submitted something that wasn’t quite right and Brad Green suggested I re-submit. I had come to know Brad through formatting and obtaining pictures for his Childhood piece for NC, so I think your presence and influence were evident in that publication in more than one way.

Jan 29, 2012 — DG is in the throes of design upgrade. Since he is not a designer, please bear with us through the experimental phases which may go on forever.

Jan 27, 2012 — Steven Axelrod will be joining the NC masthead as a Contributor in recognition of his longstanding positive commitment to the magazine.

Jan 25, 2012 — NC Contributor Adam Regn Arvidson has completed his great opus on Nature Writing in America which includes essays on Loren Eiseley, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Hoagland and Wendell Berry plus a highly instructive craft essay on imagery and invective (in the work of Edward Hoagland).

Jan 20, 2012 — NC Contributing Editors R. W. Gray (NC at the Movies) and Richard Farrell have been named Senior Editors in recognition of their excellent efforts on behalf of the magazine.