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The picture to the right, ""Venus and Cupid" by Lorenzo Lotto (1525)" by katexic, is licensed under CC BY 2.0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbb481aa1b4c574aadaabba/1579821347674-CRCFLYGQ4J25BETWSYP1/mugshot72518.JPG About - Sonja Ryst’s Biography A former staff reporter at BusinessWeek.com (now Bloomberg Businessweek), I’ve published nonfiction in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other media. I teach an online course on how to use narrative in expository writing at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. My satires have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Points in Case, Slackjaw, 101 Words, and Little Old Lady Comedy. Weekly Humorist listed one of my pieces as among its “Best of 2022.” https://writingmythology.com/writingmythologyhomepage daily 1.0 2023-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbb481aa1b4c574aadaabba/1604237763639-O3F1Z0ZYLYDQG098YZHZ/Trojans+Open+Gates+For+Science+Fiction+Convention Writing Mythology - "Myth.Slide1.16" by c.a.francese is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Marcantonio Raimondi’s “A Bacchanal”. CC01.0 Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbb481aa1b4c574aadaabba/1599578113986-5TCD4A1TARPNCS5AOUD8/furies2.png Writing Mythology William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s “Orestes Pursued by the Furies.” Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbb481aa1b4c574aadaabba/1615729456080-1C6DLE0L7SN8I6NL2RJV/bacchanalfinal.png Writing Mythology Marcantonio Raimondi’s “A Bacchanal”. 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