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Chapter 145: The “Tells”
I am not a poker player which is just as well because I shudder to think what an easy mark I’d be for any halfway decent card shark. I am woeful at…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 144: Thank you…John Wayne?
There are sports I watch every single day – thank you lord for giving humankind the gift of baseball - and sports I watch every four years. These…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 143: In Between Languages
Léopold Sédar Senghor is 33 years old in June 1940, when the German army captures him near La-Charité-sur-Loire, in central France. Senghor is far from…
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 142: Day Jobs, Part II
So how to support yourself as a writer, when there are so many new ways to be published but fewer ways to get paid?Writerland is a reader-supported…
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 141: But Is It A Book?
There comes a moment in the life of most every writer when they discover a story so good, so big, so engrossing, so filled with the stuff that keeps…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 140: The Day Job Conundrum
There is arguably no more vexing paradox confronting nonfiction writers today than this: there are more ways to be published and discovered than ever…
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 139: Death of a Writer
We were driving down the roads of childhood, though it was now I who cradled him under my arm. My father’s urn bore his name in gold on the lid: Claude…
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Diego Courchay
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