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Chapter 109: Chatting with ChatGPT
Call him Glenn. Glenn is clever and oh so quick and never replies damned if I know. Glenn indeed appears to know everything and does not shy away from…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 108: Rule of Thirds
My wife invited me along to her college newspaper reunion a few weeks ago, and to paraphrase the opening of Moby Dick, having nothing particular to…
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 107: The Journey From Despair
Believing there’s some sense to writing is not a given, not every day. When meaning fades consider the magnolia . When setbacks, senselessness, or AI…
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 106: The Adjective Problem
My students are preparing to graduate, which means the Season of Existential Dread is nigh. I cannot blame them. Graduations conclude with exhortations…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 105: Mad Max/A Tutorial
One of my few happy memories from high school are the hours spent in front of a Buick-sized microfilm machine at the Brooklyn Public Library scrolling…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 104: All Known Thought
My students have finished their stories and they are wonderful. Deeply reported, powerfully told. The editing was relatively easy – relative, that is to…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 103: Limitless Love for Language
The Parisian home of French writer Gerard Macé flows from wall to wall like one of his texts: periods and geographies merge, art forms, books, and…
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Diego Courchay
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