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Shouting into the Hollow Trunk of the World
Dear Friend, Sometimes I’ve wondered about memoir as a genre. Why do we read a segment of some individuals’ stories? And who decides to share theirs? Isn’t that, well, egotistical? But then I step into a memoir whose story is more than the individual’s and whose prose is poetry, and I blush at the questions…
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All Down Darkness Wide
Dear Friend, Thank you for a strange and somewhat unsettling, but also educational, read through Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, last month. We now turn our attention to Seán Hewitt’s memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, which I have been looking forward to reading since its pre-release announcement. Our November 2024 Reading Selection…
Contemplative Reading Project 