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By Jhumpa Lahiri“I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.”
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Prescribing Creativity: The Meta-Diaries of Marion Milner
By David Russell“Milner found psychoanalytic writing familiar with painful inhibition. She wanted to make room in it for creative exultation too—what she called ‘the yell of joy.’”
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An Eye in the Throat
By Samanta Schweblin“My father and I will remember everything from this moment on with the sharpness of an alarm that neither of us will ever be able to turn off again.”
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“We’re Never Alone”
By Tobias Wolff“I and the other artists and writers I’ve known have had to be shut away somewhere, out of the human stream, to get our work done. Yet as the years have frosted and mowed this head of mine, I have come to a different understanding of the situatio
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By Jessica Laser“That summer I learned Biblical Hebrew / with Christian women heaving themselves / toward ministry one brick building at a time.”
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By Julian Talamantez Brolaski“the angels might get so sad / knowing what I do”
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Poetry
Passages
By Chris Oh“The paintings in Passages re-create, on the marbled inner covers of antique books, seven scenes by the sixteenth-century artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder and his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger.”