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Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde - The Demographic Future of Humanity
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Now that we have invoked the ancient names day after day, we can no longer hold off the forces they contain.
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At the top, a patch of blue sky. Beneath, whitish mist.
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Review of Khirbet Khizeh in the NYRB
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"nonfiction novella" on marginalisism.
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"O God our loving Father, Help us to keep in mind the real causes of war...and to drive them from this ship"
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Camus: They must be realistic and yet cannot be.
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The gift and the obligation to return it
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Gift - Czesław Miłosz
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Self-knowledge is a decoy - Adam Phillips
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where does durable advantage reconcentrate?
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Weil believed that European writers would never again produce a work of genius until “they learn that there is no refuge from fate."
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"First, train in the preliminaries'
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People fall in love at the moments in their lives when they are most terrorized by possibilities.
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אלי, אלי, שלא יגמר לעולם
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"This is just a book pulled out of my story."
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"A dog has eaten Yannai's bread"
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Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
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"Imitating something greater than yourself, beyond the circles of rivalry"
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"Poets are literalists of the imagination"
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"There is almost nothing they will not sell in order to have the time to write"
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Eula Biss on Monopoly
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"Always ask is X a placebo or the real thing."
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Pascal Quignard - A Terrace in Rome
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Labeling meditation Instruction
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'And who is unrestrained?' A quote from Epictetus
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Christoph Schmidt on Hermann Cohen
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Liar - Built to Spill
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Amalgamation Choir - Ksenitia tou Erota (Giorgos Kalogirou)
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Fresh Kevin Kelly - Three Modes of Cognition
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Praise Song by Lucille Clifton
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Poem by Tony Hoagland
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Mark Kissler on Dean Young
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Documentary - Secret Mall Apartment
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Sigrid Nunez - Interlude from her new novel
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Sabrina Orah Mark - stay with the broken glass
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Monica Ferrell poem from her forthcoming collection
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
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Andrey Tarkovsky on writing plot
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Alexander Chee FTW
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Paris Review Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Art of Fiction No. 267
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Mechanism - by A.R. Ammons
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Mark on "So Much Longing in So Little Space"
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Kevin Kelly - How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
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New Movie roundup from the past few months
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"Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live, and as if you were to die tomorrow."
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"Your genius is your error"
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Jack Gilbert Lannan Interview
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Great interview with Tyler Cowen from several years ago
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Me(!) talking to the great Mark Kissler
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"Teach me, masters who by making were remade, your art."
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Interesting Ethan Mollick Essay
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Mark Kissler's New Substack!
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NYRB - Rescuing the Refugees by Maurice Samuels
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Poem - Constellation Route
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Reading and Interview with Solvej Balle
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Podcast with Irving Finkel
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Bart Ehrman on his belief/ lack thereof
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"He said you don't always know if you're repairing something that already exists or creating something new."
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This World - Czesław Miłosz
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A Song on the End of the World - by Czesław Miłosz
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Poem by Matthew Olzmann - Letter to Justin, Age Seven, Regarding Any Possible Mixed-Race Anxieties Which One Might Experience in the Near or Distant Future
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Two great songs
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Richard Siken - poem from his new book
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche on self-cherishing
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Tyler Cowen on AI
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Rinko Kikuchi on Happiness
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A Little Tooth by Tom Lux
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Ithaka - C. P. CAVAFY
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Stephanie Burts LRB on Richard Siken
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Jenny Offill - 'A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics'
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From his essay "Unpacking My Library"
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(Final) Lecture by Bart Earhman
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The Last One - W.S. Merwin
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Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier
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George Saunders NYT
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Roland Barthes on the dream of enclosed spaces
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
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Tyler Cowen interviewed by Liv Boeree
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Writing Advice from Sharon Olds
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"All we have is our history and it does not belong to us.”
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Essay from the end of Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Song
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Czeslaw Milosz - One More Contradiction
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Jesse Schell on Game Design
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New Benjamin Labatut interview
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Matthew Olzmann Poem
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Solvej Balle Volume II
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If This Is the Business, What’s the Hard Part? by Emily Kerr-Finell
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"Well yeah, obviously that would work." by Emily Kerr-Finell
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Sabrina Orah Mark
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Derek Sivers: Actions, not words, reveal our real values
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Om Sahana Vavatu
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Larry Legend Dailies
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Annie Ernaux on Grocery stores and so much more
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Milkman by Anna Burns
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Summer of our Discontent - Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Joseph Henrich on mentalizing and God
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Notes from Adam Phillips talk
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Sabrina Orah Mark story "Are you my mother?"
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From Rambam - Laws Concerning Character Traits
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No fixing, no advising, no saving
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Quote from the Urbi et Orbi 2020, Pope Francis
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Freud letter to Goetz Excerpt
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Neither despairing nor defensive
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Tyler Cowen on compound personal growth
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On making something of oneself - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Attention and Will - Simone Weil
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Two more by Kay Ryan
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New book forthcoming from Craig Morgan Teicher
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new Julian lage
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Ted Chiang and others on AI in writing
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We are making images for others that we ourselves can't see.
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Sturgeon's Law
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List of Cognitive Biases
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Kay Ryan - The Long Up
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Fintan O'Toole on the use of poetry in post Troubles Northern Ireland
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Quote from a meditation teacher many years ago
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Poem by Charles Simic
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'Everyman is convinced of the one thing he happened by chance to learn.'
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Music for Furniture
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"Perfect joy is to be without joy. Perfect praise is to be without praise."
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Big Thief 'Not'
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Finally poem Rae Armantrout
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Phillips on frustration and addiction
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“greed is despair about pleasure“
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Aristotle
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Bonny Light Horseman
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Dean Young Interview
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Poem by Nico Amador - LARB
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Russell Edson on the prose poem
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Sabrina Orah Mark Quote
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Larry Legend Ambient tunes
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Neruda- Oda a la pereza (in English and Spanish)
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Adam Phillips on giving up prologue
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The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee
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Adam Phillips on giving up podcast II
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Perfect Days
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Essay by Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Digital World
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Marion Milner
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Amina Cain on writing
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The Antilibrary - Umberto Eco + Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Adam Phillips on giving up podcast
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Marion Milner, a life of one’s own
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Indelicacy by Amina Cain
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Mark Kissler On Attention
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Mandaeans by Eliot Weinberger
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Ben Lerner on teaching
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Kevin Kelly on Cognition
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Thomas Chatterton Williams with Roger Berkowitz
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Labatut On Fiction - Louisiana Channel