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
Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic. Dulling the mind, it dulls distinctions, slurs the border between abstractions—right and wrong—or apparent opposites—dead and alive, past and present, you and …
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Some Other Just Ones
The printer who sets this page with skill, though he may not admire it. singers of solo expertise who defer and find harmonies instead. Anyone whose skeleton is susceptible to …
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