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A Room of One's Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft
Ben Shattuck Shares What He Loves Most About His Writing Space
By
Ben Shattuck
| July 9, 2024
Seeking Respite in Landscape: On Following Henry David Thoreau’s Walks
Ben Shattuck Traces the Beginnings of a Journey
By
Ben Shattuck
| April 19, 2022
The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside
"I’d Rather Be Huddled Somewhere and a Little Underprepared"
By
Ben Shattuck
| May 14, 2018
In an Arctic That Never Was, and Will Soon Be No More
A Lost Note from a Long-Dead Explorer Prophesies the End of the Polar Ice
By
Ben Shattuck
| December 4, 2015
There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket
On the wives of whalers and their dildos, aka "he's-at-homes"
By
Ben Shattuck
| October 16, 2015
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