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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
7 Apr 2026

Transforming Memory into Memoir (and Memoir into Money)

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(MDG Media International, 2019)     'One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, or one's illnesses ...'     I.   T...
28 Feb 2025

Yabba Dabba Doo! On Writing So As to Pleasure and In Praise of the Laughing Caveman

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Betty, Wilma, Barney, and Fred enjoying a good laugh The Flintstones (Hanna-Barbera Productions, 1960-66)       A question I am often asked...
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27 Feb 2025

Writing So As Not to Die

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    One of the questions I'm often asked is: Why write?   Well, in part, it's because, like Kafka, I think a non-writing writer risk...
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13 May 2023

On the Uncertain Duty of a Writer

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    Someone told me the other day that, as a writer, I have a duty to always say what I think.  Aside from the fact that I don't feel u...
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6 Jun 2019

Reflections on the Typewriter 2: How Derrida Put Down His Pen and Learned to Love a Keyboard

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He may have bought a computer, but nothing  could convince Derrida to get a desk lamp Photo: Joel Robine / Staff AFP Derrida c...
13 Jun 2018

The Ballerina is Not a Girl Dancing

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In a late prose piece, Mallarmé makes the provocative claim that "the ballerina is not a girl dancing ". Indeed, according...
24 Jun 2013

The Laugh of the Medusa

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If you only dare to look at the Medusa face-to-face, you'll see she's not homicidal.  She's beautiful and she's laugh...