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Adjustments Excerpt: The Dinner Party

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

reeds in sunlight

In this amusing excerpt from Will Willingham’s novel Adjustments, a man and his landlady invite dates for each other to a dinner party, and a ruckus ensues.

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Ask Pearl: Creepy Thank You Notes, Journal Creepers & Not-At-All-Creepy Cashmere Socks

By Pearl Jenkins 4 Comments

Ask Pearl girl playing with log

In her latest advice column, Dennison Gazette columnist Pearl Jenkins tackles thank you notes in the age of texting, journal snooping and buying yourself gifts at the holidays.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Ask Pearl, Blog

Adjustments Book Club: Homecomings

By Richard Maxson 15 Comments

Path in autumn leaves

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Adjustments Book Club: Messages Out of the Dark and Dancing in the Lights

By Richard Maxson 3 Comments

night sky silhouette hill

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Ask Pearl: Vamping Vapers, Organizing Stacks, Filling the Hollow Leg

By Pearl Jenkins 7 Comments

Frozen trees in snow

Pearl Jenkins answers a new set of reader questions with advice on vaping, organizing, and filling a grandson’s hollow leg.

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Adjustments Book Club: We Note Our Place With Book Markers

By Richard Maxson 19 Comments

Sunrise in field

How does friendship play a role in identifying, and going on to meet, our needs? Explore the relationship between new friends Will and Joe in Rick Maxson’s first Adjustments Book Club installment.

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Reader Come Home: “Adjustments”

By Megan Willome 15 Comments

Will Willingham

Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader as we read ‘Adjustments,’ a very funny book about a man not unlike Keats. And share your October pages in our Reader, Come Home roundup.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, book reviews, Books, Reader Come Home

Book Club Announcement: Adjustments by Will Willingham

By Richard Maxson 3 Comments

Round bales in fog

The best books are those that invite us into a world we would never have thought to enter. Adjustments by Will Willingham is such a book and such a world. Join Richard Maxon for our latest book club discussion beginning Nov. 18.

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Ask Pearl: The Advice Columnist You Didn’t Know You Needed

By Pearl Jenkins 15 Comments

Ask Pearl Advice Column Brownie plate

You don’t know it yet, but you need a little Pearl Jenkins in your life. In a brand new advice column, Adjustments character Pearl Jenkins offers up advice on everything from etiquette to dating.

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Announcing: Adjustments—A Novel for Our Time

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Adjustments by Will Willingham

This is a novel for our time. Forget about how it will sometimes make you laugh more than you have in a while. Or make you love the characters and wish you could meet them at the corner store. Little by little, this story also unfolds a vision for how to navigate in a world where we can’t always resolve things, a vision for choosing life.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments, Books, Fiction

Adjuster Stories: Storytelling as an Intentional Act

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Storytelling as an Intentional Act snowy woods scene

When you wind up in one of those places that feels like it has the makings of a B horror movie, you might as well start telling the story right then. LW Lindquist has an adjuster story reminding us of how storytelling can be a way of understanding.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments

Confessions of a Serial Novel Writer

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Confessions of a Serial Writer - gravel road and blue sky

Serial fiction presents unique challenges and opportunities for a fiction writer. Will Willingham looks at the process like trying to outrun a gravel truck.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction, Writing Tips

The Heart’s Affections: On Loving Pearl Jenkins

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Fiction Character Pearl Jenkins

In fiction, are characters there to make the plot happen, or does it work the other way around? Adjustments’ Pearl Jenkins gives us a clue.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

Adjustments: The Series

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

The Adjuster Open Road

Is it true that claim adjusters tell the best stories? Find out for yourself with our subscriber-only fiction series, Adjustments.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

An Adjuster’s Letter to John Keats

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

The Adjuster's Letter to John Keats

An adjuster writes a letter to John Keats, hoping to understand mystery and negative capability in a world where truth matters less than what you can prove.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

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