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Bill Hayes

Bill Hayes
Bill Hayes is the author of How We Live Now, Insomniac City, and The Anatomist, among other books. Hayes is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. A collection of his street photography, How New York Breaks Your Heart, was published recently by Bloomsbury. Hayes has completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of Insomniac City, currently in the works from Brouhaha Entertainment, and he is also a co-editor of Oliver Sacks’s posthumous books. He lives in New York.
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The Rest Principle: On the Necessity of Recovery, in Fitness and Writing

Bill Hayes Applies the Lessons of Personal Training to the Life of a Writer
January 20, 2022  By Bill Hayes
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Bill Hayes Writing About a Completely Normal Evening in New York

Or, A Scene From the Before Times
September 4, 2020  By Bill Hayes
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Walking in the City Before the Bookstores Closed

Bill Hayes Heads Downtown to Buy a Book
March 26, 2020  By Bill Hayes
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On Editing Oliver Sacks After
He Was Gone

How the Author of 13 Books Never Stopped Loving the Publishing Process
April 23, 2019  By Bill Hayes
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