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Remembering Bettina Gilois (and what writers can learn from her work)
“The opening line of your work should hold within it the germ of your entire idea. Attention spans are growing ever shorter. Grab your...
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Talking with my parents about how to handle it when your parents die
“In America aging is often seen as an insult rather than an inevitable human process. We don’t celebrate getting older; we ‘fight’ age by...
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Bonus: Unpacking the mission of travel-writing in the 21st century
“One of the miracles of travel writing is to constantly be reminded of how much we don’t know.” – Doug Bock Clark In this...
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What the world’s last subsistence hunters can teach us about humanity
“The Lamalerans hunt in a way that is almost exactly the same as the way people hunted during Moby Dick’s time. Going on one...
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Revisiting The Great Gatsby, high-school-style, in quarantine
“One reason why Gatsby is called a ‘Great American Novel’ is that it illuminates a conversation we haven’t stopped having in this country. We...
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Why travelers visit museums (in places like Iceland), and what they find there
“You can’t ever really know what a museum will offer you until you get there.” – Kendra Green In this episode of Deviate, Rolf...