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How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling

“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.”

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Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know…”

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Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing, and What His Poet Friend Taught Him About the Nature of Creativity
Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing, and What His Poet Friend Taught Him About the Nature of Creativity

“The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act of writing… a special, indispensable form of talking to myself.”

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Pool: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of Quiet Curiosity and How We Find Our Kindred Spirits
Pool: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of Quiet Curiosity and How We Find Our Kindred Spirits

What our hunger for connection has to do with Borges’s imaginary beings.

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