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collectivity? The relationship of an individual to history and time? What kinds of public roles seem important and privileged?

Sidonie Smith • Reading Autobiography

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This list could go on and on, taking us through cultural institutions, state bureaucracies, nonstate organizations, friendships, cross-cultural encounters, communities, media, virtual reality. Global culture multiplies the possibilities for both coaxing and coercing multiple life stories.

Sidonie Smith • Reading Autobiography

Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

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In unpredictable times, poetry leaves the safe, familiar ways of knowing and speaking and listens out into new forms of being and creating. It searches for new insights between the known, it fathoms the space between people, between us and the living world, between different ways of seeing and shaping the world. It listens for new ways of being tha... See more

Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Audre Lorde, Jen Keenan,

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The Gentrification of the Mind

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### Joan Didion

- Best Known Work:

- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.

- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:

- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A