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April 1, 2025
- Read Joan Didion’s notes on therapy
- On W.G. Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes
- What fiction has to do with playing Mario Kart
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel in the day’s abundance.”
Mike Drucker Finds a Little Humor in Life’s Many Setbacks
Ben Ratliff on the Power of Life With a Soundtrack
Bryan Alistair Charles on the Unexpected Gifts of Discovering Brian Charles
Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”
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