3-2-1: My advice for writers, what silence says, and the chapters of your life

I both have so much to say and nothing to say. Perhaps it is that some of what I have to say simply requires more time and space to marinate than these weekly letters allow; perhaps it’s that some of what I have to say isn’t meant to be said to 23,000 people but instead to my partner, or my child, or a friend, or in a longer-term project. Perhaps i... See more

It is winter again as I write to you, and maybe it’s a good moment for embracing narratives that creep along less quickly than we’d like. My appreciation has grown for the slow and steady, for the small ever-present good, for the kind of love that is not easily tumbled by the elements, for the boring, even. These are the kind of stories and ways of

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