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What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
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Needs
Old Fashioned
Reborn
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As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.
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Evolution
Time Long Long Time
Speeds
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Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
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Complicated
Reminders
Thinking
Always More Things
Provides
Reporting
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It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
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Curious
Essayists
Facts
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
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Curious
Essayist
Existed
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I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
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Just Saying
Things To Do
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A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
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Good Faith
Good Writers
Want
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We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
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Abyss
Moments
Past
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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
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First Time
Firsts
Freaky
Things Happen
World
Suppose
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The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
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Bars
Cities
Cork
Islands
Rivers
Shops
Urban
Center
Island
River
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Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
John Jeremiah Sullivan / Writer
Daughter
Household
Watching Tv
Wife
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Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
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Ends
Father
Office
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Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
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Albany
Ireland
Basement
Me Father New
Desk
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At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
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Might
Temptation
Want
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At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
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Choir
Reader
Temptation
Concept
Gq
Preach
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I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
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Subjects
Equally
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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
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Prose
Better Writer
Generating
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I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
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Believer
Break
Passionate
Process
Revision
Time Process New
Apart
Draft
Every Time
Gets
Remake
Tend
Tweaking
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This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
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Interviews
Good Me Person
Ages
Author
Good Ones
Review
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I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.
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Steady
Belong
Literary
Published
Stream
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
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Interviews
Digest
Indiscriminate
Initial
Stack
Travelling
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The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.
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Hair
Rap
Tattoo
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Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.
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Determined
Existence
Oppressed
Assume
Minute
Tendency
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This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.
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Christian
Doors
Locks
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I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.
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Empathy
Thinking
Writing
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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
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Green
Ireland
Pills
Timeless
False
Folk
Pull
Swallow
Trip
Wee
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.
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People
Thinking
Writing
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There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordtensionhas an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?
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Animal
Fall
Writing
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