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May 13, 2022
What is the use of nostalgia, this yearning over the vanished past, this clinging to what is gone and will not come again? On Mother’s Day, I stood over…
Michael Dolzani
May 13
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January 14, 2022
My theme this week is “possession,” which may strike some readers as off the beaten path. But it is actually as timely as the day’s headlines—pretty…
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Jan 14
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April 8, 2022
Here there be dragons. According to a common piece of folklore, that inscription appears at the margins of maps in the olden days. What it really…
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Apr 8
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February 25, 2022
A few days ago, a former student, an English major just graduated in December, wrote to me asking a question I am repeatedly asked, and for 33 years…
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Feb 25
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February 25, 2022
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April 22, 2022
Last week I raised the issue of the frequent, sometimes intense disapproval of popular storytelling in our time: of the “category fiction” that sells…
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Apr 22
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May 6, 2022
Last week, at a concert, an amiable parking lot attendant thanked us for being more pleasant to deal with than his previous customer. He offered no…
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May 6
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December 24, 2021
This newsletter will appear on Christmas Eve Day, so of course it’s going to be about Christmas, despite the obviousness of the choice. In fact, I’m…
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Dec 24, 2021
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October 22, 2021
Suddenly, it is October. How is that possible? Summer is always gone too soon for me. But here we are in the week of the birthday, on October 27, of the…
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Oct 22, 2021
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October 22, 2021
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December 10, 2021
We seem to be witnessing a reluctant acknowledgment of inwardness. In 2012, Susan Cain revived the debate over introversion and extraversion with her…
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Dec 10, 2021
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February 11, 2022
Revenge may seem an odd choice of topic for a newsletter on imagination. What does revenge have to do with the imagination? But the answer is…
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Feb 11
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April 15, 2022
In the previous newsletter, I quoted the great fantasist Ursula Le Guin’s disparaging remarks about what is commonly called formula fiction or category…
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Apr 15
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March 11, 2022
Last week, I wrote about the role that chance plays in our lives, for better or worse. Chance obligingly proceeded to provide me with examples. A writer…
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Mar 11
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