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Irish interest (opens the original)
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This past week, I traveled to Dublin. I had visited when I studied abroad a million years ago, but I can say its rich literary history was not at the top of my list of priorities. Temple Bar and the Guinness Storehouse probably were. Alas, we evolve. This time, I visited neither of those places, and couldn’t get enough of the country’s obsession with words.I knew the Irish love a novel, and that they’re exceptionally good at writing them. I even wondered about the disproportionate amount of genu
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work (opens the original)
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Living in the world today can feel like a constant theft of our attention, like it’s being stolen right out from under us. We’re surrounded by technology that’s designed to suck us into a digital world that feels like our own, acts like our own, but isn’t our own.Paying attention - real, devoted attention - is in danger of becoming a dying art.We can’t let it!In the words of Mary Oliver: To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.Subscribe nowI
A love letter to The Met (opens the original)
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Saying The Met is a great museum is like saying the sky is blue. The Pope’s Catholic. Water is wet. It’s a given. The Met is huge. It’s over 2 million square feet, and houses over 2 million objects across 5,000 years of human history. It has some world-class exhibitions, and enough in the permanent collection that I genuinely believe you could go every single day and find something new to marvel.The museum itself is made of over 20 different buildings of all different architectural styles essent
Is ignorance bliss? (opens the original)
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I recently wrote about a trip I took to Vienna, and how it set me on a journey of research and discovery into the rich history of the city at the “fin-de-siecle”.There were several writers at the heart of this time period. Many of them were members of a literary group called Young Vienna. Imagine a bunch of white men (with an abysmally small number of anyone non-white, non-man, I am sure) sitting at coffee houses for hours on end: shuffl
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