October 26, 2018 Brooklyn, NY Dear Each and Every One of You, Several of you have heard this already, out loud, at our exhilarating Slow Burn panel at ASAP/10 in…
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Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle , vol. 6: Rachel Greenwald Smith, October 23
St. Louis, MO Dear Slow Burners, As I slowly make my way through Book 6, I keep thinking about this one moment in Charlie Rose’s famous interview with David Foster…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle , vol. 6: Diana, October 15
Brooklyn, NY Dears, If, having opened a long book by a novelist you despise in preparation for an unpaid task, you find yourself too unwilling to let him tell you…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle , vol. 6: Emily Tamkin, October 10
Dear friends, Washington, DC Before sitting down to write this letter, I went and looked up the blog post I wrote after I finished Book 1 of My Struggle. I…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle , vol. 6: Cecily, October 9
Knausgaard: Mommy Blogger Princeton, NJ I’m writing this post from the café within the Princeton Public Library, where, at the table across from mine, a dad is doing a valiant…
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Stephanie, October 5
Cambridge, MA Dear friends, When Dan asked me if I wanted to write about My Struggle for Slow Burn, I told him I was only interested in writing about “the…