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Chaos, Coherence, and the Dream of a Narrative
At Notre Dame in Reims. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Josef Camera Bringing Order Out of It When the European Writers’ Council polled its member associations on how rough it’s been since March 2020 for...
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The Inevitable Naïveté of the Past
In Cima Grappa, 20 October 2017. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Alexander Farnsworth We, and Readers, Wise Up Slowly As you’ll find Therese writing about on Saturday, Writer Unboxed has reached its 16th...
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Ego, ‘LitFlation,’ and Honor(s)
At the Pont Alexandre III over the Seine in Paris, January 1, 2022. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Marina113 ‘I’m Tired of My Ego’ That’s become one of my favorite lines of 2022, a young year that already...
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Evil and ‘The Age of Madness’
A statue in Lviv (in western Ukraine) is shrouded in protective material against the advance of Russian troops, March 13, 2022. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Ruslan Lytvyn Writing the Darkness In France,...
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Just Artificial, Not Intelligence
Image – Getty iStockphoto: Phonlamai Photo Scaring Up Some Audiobooks Recently, a distributor of digital books – both ebooks and audiobooks – announced that it was adding a new offering for publishers:...
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Waiting for Refugee Aid To Grow Up
Supporters of Ukraine at Warschauer Strasse station in Berlin, September 20. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Fotofantastika A Heartfelt Imbalance Since late February, when Vladimir Putin began his barbaric...
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Another Diversity
Image – Getty iStockphoto; Joshua James Girl Power and Boys’ Struggles As we approach the new year – today on the winter solstice – 2022 seems incalculably long and complicated. Can this be the same...
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Cyber Rattling: When the Bot Chats
Image: Getty iStockphoto: Ipopba In Touch With the Machine As you’ll recall, author Erma Clare and Therese on February 11 wrote here at Writer Unboxed about what some call “language artificial...
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Memories of Mantel at Southwark Cathedral
At London’s Southwark Cathedral. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Purple Images ‘So You Can Tell the Truth’ London Book Fair week, while full of many good things, rarely includes contemplation, reverence,...
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Owning Your ‘Work Story’
In Havana. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Nadezdastoyanova ‘Workquakes’ and Other Influences I had looked at Bruce Feiler’s new book The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World (Penguin...
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