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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…
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Michael Shapiro
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.
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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.
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 180: Limbo, or Between Stories
And so you have written.
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Michael Shapiro

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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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Michael Shapiro

March 2025

February 2025

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