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01/22/2024

It’s Your Choice

Isolation, capitalism, and learning lessons the hard way

by Alexis Clements

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06/22/2023

“Children (and Geniuses)”

Beethoven, Bernstein, and Lucy’s Unanswered Question

by Sarah Day-O'Connell

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11/10/2022

Creative People

A note on the creative class

by Bucket Siler

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09/19/2022

Elbows on Windowpanes

Calm, panic, and a pandemic

by Caroline Mckenzie

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03/07/2022

Clearing Out the Brain Fog

On creativity and restriction

by Anna Gordover

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12/20/2021

Only Connect: On “A Thousand Ways”

by Rhoda Feng

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11/04/2021

The Pandemic, Murder, Cannibalism, and Me

Pulling lessons from the past, stitch by stitch

by Jeanie Kortum

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09/27/2021

The Soul, Afloat

Searching for clarity through sensory deprivation

by Vanessa Blakeslee

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06/07/2021

The Key to Filming a Zoom Funeral

Lighting, a charged battery, and attentiveness

by Jonathan Topaz

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04/12/2021

Is it Cool that I Said All That?

Lessons in Confessional Writing From Taylor Swift

by Sarah Hansen

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