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Why Everyone Should Keep An Authority List
Some of you might have seen this essay recently on Jane Friedman’s site. If you are a new subscriber, welcome! 👋🏻 I hope you’ll join the conversation…
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October 2024
A Garden Never Dies
To everything there is a season, but for a brief stretch of October it is both a time for reaping and for sowing.
Oct 29
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We Are All Babbitts Or Bartlebys Now
The college landscape in America is beginning to look a lot like the 1920s, but since we’ve stopped reading the literature of that era, at least in…
Oct 22
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The Lake And The Sea
A short story | Julie Baker later imagined that she’d been able to feel it, a sudden turn in the wind, a bank of clouds building along the rim of the…
Oct 15
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There Is No Wildness In "The Wild Robot"
This past weekend I took my daughter to the movies.
Oct 8
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Can You Be Sober If You Never Were An Alcoholic?
Josh: I think I’ve told you, Dee, that a little over a year ago, the very day that my ex and I decided that we would divorce, I stopped drinking.
Oct 1
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September 2024
Can A Philosopher Be A Happy Capitalist?
G.V. Loewen previews his health and wellness startup
Sep 24
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Home Is The Native Soil Of The Heart
Today’s essay is part of a new series including me, Latham Turner, Bowen Dwelle , Sincere American Writing, Dee Rambeau, and Lyle McKeany. In the past…
Sep 17
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Discussion: Seeing Our Mothers As Characters
Earlier this week, I shared some thoughts about transforming real people — especially parents — into characters in memoir.
Sep 13
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Seeing Our Mothers As Characters
In his memoir Nobody’s Son, Mark Slouka recalls an afternoon when he caught a glimpse of his mother with her lover, a man he only ever names as “F.”
Sep 10
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Why I Run
Friends,
Sep 3
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August 2024
How Cherries Freed Me From My Feed
Earlier this summer I saw the post above pop up in my Facebook feed.
Aug 27
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