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By @tobyknappON | Facebook Mar 16, 2021 The era of social distancing seems to be coming to a close and if you’re feeling equal parts excitement and dread, you’re not alone. There’s a big difference between a Zoom happy hour with your closest friends and socializing at a real-life gathering so don’t feel bad about being nervous over having to talk to strangers again. Here are some expert tips to cope. ● You Can’t Lose Social Skills. Chit-chatting is like riding a bike. Once you get good at it, you have the skills forever. Psychologist Linda Blair says we “acquire most of our soc...
OFF RADAR: ‘Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories’ and ‘Cow Palace’ New books by Susan Minot and Anne Britting Oleson By Dana Wilde “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” by Susan Minot; Knopf, New York, 2020; 176 pages, hardcover, $25. The spare, journalistic prose style in fiction was more or less invented by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s and ’30s. Brief, straightforward sentences piled up to create a feeling of realistic, no-nonsense toughness. In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s it turned into a preferred style for short fiction ...
For Comfort Reading, Susan Minot Turns to Comic Writers Credit...Jillian Tamaki Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated March 1, 2021 “Being funny is not only hard but perhaps the most powerful thing of all,” says the author, whose latest book is “Why I Don’t Write: And Other Stories.” What books are on your night stand? That would be sprawled on the floor. “Elvis and Gladys,” by Elaine Dundy; “Three of a Kind,” novellas by James M. Cain; “The Paintings of Charles Burchfield”; “The Lost Pianos of Siberia,” by Sophy Roberts; “Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wa...
>> many parts. the most important part, i think, is a long pathway associated with profound cocaine addiction. also, an area associated with nicotine addiction. it is an addiction. wonderful addiction when things are going well. perfectly horrible addiction when things are going poorly. >> when robert palmer sings you are addicted to love, it actually is. >> absolutely. not only that, another part of the brain that becomes active, you are intensely in love with this person, craving them. other areas associated with pain, physical pain, and the distress of the pain and deep attachment to this p...