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My Struggle , vol. 6: Katherine Hill, October 26

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…

Contemporaries Essays

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

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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

Sex and the City: Lakshmi, October 13

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

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…