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The Beautiful Salmon
By Joanna Kavenna“I’ve always loved salmon. Not to eat, as I don’t eat fish, but I’ve always loved salmon in general because salmon jump and no one knows why.”
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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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By Julien Columeau“On the cold night of November 24, 1997, before Shahid disappeared forever, I thought I was his closest friend, his only confidant.”
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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 Maureen N. McLane“I’m a Keats bot / so are you / our living hands / held toward each other”
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Tourmaline
By Matthew Zapruder“I love green / tourmaline the most / to look at it / is to become a leaf / falling”
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