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Chapter 197: Beware the Uncreative Boss
I was back in Chicago a few weeks ago, seeing friends with whom I worked when we were in our 20s and filled with the bad-case-of-youth combination of…
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 196: Memories, Like Shards
I teach my final Memory Project class this spring; I’m retiring from Columbia in June – but not from writing, never that.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 195: When a Story Stays With You
There’s a useful analogy to describe how certain stories keep recurring in our lives: finding them is like discovering a new word, in the sense that…
 • Diego Courchay
Chapter 194: Searching for the Soldiers Who Became Our Dads
My friend Dan Sneider emailed the other day about his father.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 193: Story Without End. Amen
One of the most tired refrains about the writing life is that the joy comes not in the work itself but in having done it.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 192: But Will There Be Any Readers Left? YES!
Over the summer a report appeared that confirmed every suspicion, fear, and I-told-you-so about reading habits: fewer people in the United States and…
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 191: ​​Hearing Voices
A voice can be telling, in more ways than one.
 • Diego Courchay
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