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17 Jul 20199 Jul 2019Tim Miller

There is Only the Trying: Some Thoughts on Fame & Failure

A reader favorite from 2016, that I like to repost now & then: 1. When Derek Jeter retired from baseball in the fall of 2014, those who followed his last season heard the unsurprising story that he’d wanted to be shortstop for the New York Yankees since he was a little boy. And as I […]

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Pablo Picasso - Woman Writing (1934)
10 Apr 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

Images: The Act of Writing

26 Jan 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

The Poet Speaks #4: O’Connor, Campbell, Merwin, Walcott, van Gogh

Flannery O’Connor responds to questions from academics and their students about her short stories: Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of […]

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