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Redefining the Modern Flâneuse: A Reading List

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Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Pete Davis on Making Meaning Through the Radical Act of Limiting Your Options

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Exploring My Disparate Cultures in Fiction Helped Me Better Understand Them Both

Exploring My Disparate Cultures in Fiction Helped Me Better Understand Them Both

Gian Sardar on the Distance Between Kurdistan and Rural Minnesota

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Adam Mansbach on the Difficulty of Writing an Honest Elegy About His Brother

Adam Mansbach on the Difficulty of Writing an Honest Elegy About His Brother

Shawn Setaro in Conversation with the Author of I Had a Brother Once

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"Write as if you were dying." Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.

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Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

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Kent Wong on a Childhood Amid Unstable and Dangerous Times

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Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

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Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

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