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5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success

The great and terrible truth of clichés, why success is a dangerous bedfellow, and how disappointment paves the way for originality.

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How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love

Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.

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Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity

On the osmosis of willful intention and flow.

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5 Guides to Life from Cultural Luminaries

Finding practical applications for philosophy, or what Ovid can teach us about sex.

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The 13 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2013

How to think like Sherlock Holmes, make better mistakes, master the pace of productivity, find fulfilling work, stay sane, and more.

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Magic Hours: Tom Bissell on the Secrets of Creators and Creation

“To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.”

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The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors

Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare.

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The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual

A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.

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Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

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The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

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Search results for “david foster wallace”

The great and terrible truth of clichés, why success is a dangerous bedfellow, and how disappointment paves the way for originality.

Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.

On the osmosis of willful intention and flow.

Finding practical applications for philosophy, or what Ovid can teach us about sex.

How to think like Sherlock Holmes, make better mistakes, master the pace of productivity, find fulfilling work, stay sane, and more.

“To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.”

Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare.

A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

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