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Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself
“You don’t know—you
can’t
know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”
By
Dani Shapiro
| April 7, 2023
Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth
Dani Shapiro on Revisiting Her Book on Craft a Decade On
By
Dani Shapiro
| March 13, 2023
Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?
On Unraveling the Mystery of My Conception
By
Dani Shapiro
| January 23, 2019
Dani Shapiro on the Hard Art of Balancing Writing and Social Media
When Introverts Need to Be Extroverts
By
Dani Shapiro
| February 15, 2018
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