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Finding “the flux” in 2024
With some help from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, circa 1969
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Mason Currey
24
On searching for your own idea of quality
And what if it keeps changing?
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Mason Currey
45
Samuel Johnson and the art of procrastination
Or how to write 1,800 words an hour
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Mason Currey
75
Henri Cole on the enemies within
And why they’re a gift
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Mason Currey
26
Checking in with “Heather in Brooklyn”
Last year, she was in a post-project funk. Now her book is out! An advice column update.
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Mason Currey
16
“A strange empty day”
From May Sarton’s journals—plus, more on paid newsletters
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Mason Currey
48
Three tales of creative incompetence
Plus: Advice on sharing your work
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Mason Currey
21
New Year, New . . . Rapture?
On bell hooks and the privilege and joy (maybe) of writing
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Mason Currey
10
Really good writing advice from Slavoj Žižek
How to make writing disappear!
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Mason Currey
35
Lauren Berlant’s labor of being
“Things are usually in my way but that’s the thing about writing.”
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Mason Currey
3
“If work comes easily, it is suspect”
On David Salle, Janet Malcolm, and feeling like you’re doing everything wrong
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Mason Currey
8
Machiavelli’s daily routine while writing The Prince
“For four hours I forget all my worries and boredom, I am afraid neither of poverty nor death.”
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Mason Currey
6
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