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Carolyn Heilbrun once observed that James Joyce was 'a world class shit.'

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She wanted to penetrate the shells in the way doctors would when performing a procedure on her.

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I think he stumbled on telling the truth to save his own life—and it worked.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Now I’m half the stoner I used to be, liquor-free, and he’s gone.

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Not that kind of ex, though then differentiating is a damn good idea.

from adoption to writerly sins...

An experience of trauma—either long-term or instantaneous—rocks us out of our familiar relationship with words.