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Chapter 185: Lost, Yet Hoping to be Found
Writers are vexed for reasons so familiar that there is little need to enumerate them.
Sep 11
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 184: Long Ago and Like Yesterday, Too
It's good to be back. It is also good to have had what all writers need but which we too seldom are allowed, or allow ourselves: time to step away and…
Sep 5
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Michael Shapiro
May 2025
Chapter 183: The Best of Us
My students have graduated and dispersed and I am kicking myself for sending them off without telling them about one of the most profound experiences…
May 30
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 182: Places Read, Places Traveled
A series of winding roads through the mountains descended into a canyon, with a river running along its bottom.
May 16
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 181: Had I Only Known
An anxious email landed in my inbox the day after my students’ book went on sale earlier this week.
May 9
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 180: Limbo, or Between Stories
And so you have written.
May 2
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Michael Shapiro
2
April 2025
Chapter 179: Other Lands; Other Voices
Something gets lost when students from abroad come to America and learn to write as journalists here: the voices they carry with them.
Apr 25
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 178: Don’t Let ‘em See You Sweating
Chapter 178: Don’t Let ‘em See You Sweating
Apr 18
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 177: Treasures in Unlikely Places
Growing up in Southwest Mexico in the 1960s, my mother often said she owed her lifelong passion for reading to an unlikely source.
Apr 11
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 176: Hollywood to the Rescue
It is spring, the season of crocuses, daffodils, seasonal allergies, Opening Days (please, please let this be my Mets’ year) and, if the past is its…
Apr 4
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Michael Shapiro
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March 2025
Chapter 175: In the Rooms Where it Happened
So many fun things in our line of work, and few can bring more delight than being transported in place and time by means of the essential and never easy…
Mar 28
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 174: Frozen Moments, Speaking Volumes
Almost all of the leading characters in my book are dead.
Mar 14
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Michael Shapiro
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