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Metaphors can pluck a string within us. This one will resonate with writers. Only one in 10,000 oysters will produce a natural pearl. For the jewel to exist, that singular mollusk must suffer an unfortunate fate: a foreign body intrudes within its shell, say a grain of sand…
Diego Courchay
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I started this newsletter one hundred chapters ago when I discovered after decades of writing that it was possible to find joy in the work. As I wrote…
Michael Shapiro
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My students are poised to start writing. I am excited. I am nervous. Excited because they are about to bring to life the stories they have been…
Michael Shapiro
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Years ago my wife had a colleague who left a very good job at The New York Times for Wall Street, which had been his beat. “The income potential,” he…
Michael Shapiro
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The course of the American essay swung one summer in the 1980s. Not a word was written and the motion was all a hammock’s, yet in it was Phillip Lopate…
Diego Courchay
I had not understood before raising the question of greatness that I had, if not opened a can of worms, then sparked an existential crisis. For that I…
Michael Shapiro
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Students have lots of questions at the end of the semester and most of them have to do with getting jobs. They ask about career paths and balancing work…
Michael Shapiro
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On the first day of this semester’s Memory Project class, my students brought in the photographs they would spend the semester thinking, reporting and…
Michael Shapiro
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