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The Siblings episode 2
The Siblings, episode 2. Rocky is addicted to Nyquil, so the Siblings decide to do an intervention.
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When We Do
I’ve started drinking coffee in the mornings because it’s something to do. I don’t really like the taste of coffee. I like coffee mixed with other things: chocolate, sugar, cream, wasp urine, etc. It...
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Writing is the World’s Greatest Invention
Tom Standage on the world’s greatest invention. The amazing thing about writing, given how complicated its early systems were, is that anyone learned it at all. The reason they did is revealed in the...
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My first thought is never my best thought, but someone else’s
William Deresiewicz in a lecture titled “Solitude and Leadership”. I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve...
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Accessing my subconscious in order to write
When I sit down to write and I see the white blank page, the first words that inevitably come to my mind are, “In the beginning…” I’ve never started a story in that fashion, but for some reason, my...
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Writing as Transformation
What I’m hinting at is a power and mystery beyond me. I have to write mindlessly and without getting in the way of the process. This means, that almost everything I do, my words, my thoughts, my...
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The Energy and Complication of long sentences
To pick up a book is, ideally, to enter a world of intimacy and continuity; the best volumes usher us into a larger universe, a more spacious state of mind akin to the one I feel when hearing Bach (or...
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Publishing in the New Yorker takes care of those blank faces when you say,...
As Dubus put it in my interview with him, “I think most writers quit between the ages of twenty and thirty for various reasons. They are alone then unless they have exceptional parents; even if they...
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Oldie but Goodie? Summer Roommates with Santa
Because I like watching videos of myself:
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Slow, Deep, Descriptive Storytelling
Jonathan Fitzgerald muses over his use of anecdotes, how his writing falls into “the introductory anecdote, argument, and application” pattern that’s so-very Evangelical and not-so literary. Do we...
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The Energy and Complication of long sentences
To pick up a book is, ideally, to enter a world of intimacy and continuity; the best volumes usher us into a larger universe, a more spacious state of mind akin to the one I feel when hearing Bach (or...
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