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The Millions Top 10
It’s Time We Started Stressing: The Millions Interviews Earl Swift
We’ve got to come up with a rubric to figure out what do we save, what do we surrender to the sea? We have to be consistent.
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Absence of Inspiration, Absence of God: On Christian Wiman’s ‘He Held Radical Light’
Wiman’s writing works to save by remembering. And remember it does, if only for some time. Highly contingent and uncertain, this is how memory saves.
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Is Baseball What’s Wrong with America?
This larger denial, Mathis posits, leaves white America prone to yearning for a time that never existed. We’ve come, unexpectedly, back to baseball.
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Eroded Tropes and Fears and Consequences: The Millions Interviews Alyson Hagy
Compassion? If we cannot find it, we will see those who aren’t like us as “other,” as enemy. Literature—all art—is essential to human empathy.
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It’s OK to Be a Writer and a ____
There are many essays on “how to get your writing done when everything else is crowding in on you.” This isn’t one of those pieces.
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The New Periphery: Sergio De La Pava Discusses His Artistry and Sense of 21st-Century Fiction
When something’s masterful, to me, it’s done. I often wonder: If I were insanely impressed by the majority of novels I’ve read, would I even write?
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