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on being bad at traveling
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What Is Writing Supposed to Feel Like?
This is a stupid question that preoccupies me utterly.
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Cultural Diary, July 2024
Naomi Kanakia, Emmett Rensin, the upper peninsula of Michigan
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On the Nature and Origins of Juicelessness
sorry. this post, too, is juiceless. but it's *true*
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You Dummies, You Absolute Dummies, THESE Are the Best Books Of the Past 25 Years
shameless. o shameless
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Living By Fiction (1982)
Previous twenty-two posts in this series on Marilynne Summers Robinson and Annie Doak Dillard, two writers this writer loves rather excessively. It’s…
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Housekeeping (1980)
Previous twenty-one posts in this series on Marilynne Summers Robinson and Annie Doak Dillard, two writers this writer really loves. An abiding…
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June 2024

Holy the Firm
Previous twenty posts in this series on Marilynne Summers Robinson and Annie Doak Dillard, two writers I absolutely fiercely love.
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Cultural Diary, June 2024
I Saw the TV Glow, The People's Joker, therapyspeak, gnosticism, superheroes
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
it's not "walden 2.0" and it's important to understand why
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Writing: How Do You Even Begin
In the last week or two, I’ve had two separate people ask me, in effect, how to start writing. One person was asking more generally, the other more…
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2024 Summer/Fall Books, A Biased Preview, Pt. 3
September
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