Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death
Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for
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Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice
The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy
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Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better
What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment
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Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity
What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well
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The Return of the Epic Novelist
In his new book, Steven Heighton revitalizes a grand tradition of storytelling—and sets himself against the identity politics of North American fiction
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Bystanders
The radiance of the remembered crisis had overexposed what followed
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Some Other Just Ones
She who, having loved a book or record, instantly passes it on
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