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The Art of the Libretto: John Adams
As I mentioned, I had the image of the birth of our own children in mind, and I had the same feeling that you do, that so ...
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Bad Dinner Guest
Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That is Happening, which was ...
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Encyclopedia Brown: A Story for My Brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman
"When I watch Phil playing these parts in films that now capture a distant past, in roles that have become familiar to us, I ...
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On the Distinctiveness of Writing in China
People’s spirits resemble a patch of grass struggling to grow in the intermittently light and dark area beneath partially ...
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“Throwing Yourself Into the Dark”: A Conversation with Anne Carson
Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she ...
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Prescribing Creativity: The Meta-Diaries of Marion Milner
Milner found psychoanalytic writing familiar with painful inhibition. She wanted to make room in it for creative exultation ...
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“We’re Never Alone”
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 ...
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Sherlock’s Double: At William Gillette’s Castle
Gillette Castle lies up a coily road in East Haddam, Connecticut. I visit on the first hot day of May. An elaborate stone ...
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June 7. To get a head start
To wait around this long.