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Chapter 151: Distance
We’ve published a terrific new story this week that succeeds, I am compelled to say, despite me. The piece, My Home Towns by Kellianne Jones, captures…
May 31
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 150: But…What Do You Want?
In early February I wrote about my colleague James Robinson and I posing the question that we ask our students at the start of every semester: how do…
May 17
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 149: Writing Inspiration from John Mooney, Bluesman
I had never heard of John Mooney until I heard him play last Sunday. This was at JazzFest, in New Orleans, a wonderful music – and this being New…
May 10
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 148: Reporting When You’re Part of the Story
Last week – before my university called in the police to end the takeover of a campus building and dismantle a protest encampment – I ran into one of my…
May 3
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Michael Shapiro
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April 2024
Chapter 147: Beautiful Disquiet
Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik once wrote, “All night I hope my language might succeed in configuring me.”
Apr 26
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 146: In Their Own Words
Over the years I made the mistake, time and again, of thinking that I understood what my students were experiencing as they approached writing the…
Apr 19
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Michael Shapiro
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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…
Apr 12
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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…
Apr 5
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Michael Shapiro
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March 2024
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…
Mar 29
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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…
Mar 15
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Michael Shapiro
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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…
Mar 8
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 141: But Is It A Book?
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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…
Mar 1
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Michael Shapiro
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