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Replay: Alissa Wilkinson shares Five Things She's Learned about the Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion
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Replay: Kaveh Akbar shares Five Things He's Learned about Sacred Poetics
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Replay: Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares Five Things He's Learned Too Late about Publishing His First Book
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Replay: Maggie Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – During Times of Upheaval
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Replay: Ann Hood shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing Memoir
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Replay: Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – by Writing Through Crisis
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Replay: Jane Hirschfield shares Five Things She's Learned about Poems as Fields of Discovery
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Replay: Daniel Handler shares Five Things He's Learned about Creativity – That Turn Out To Be Wrong
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Replay: Michael Ruhlman shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing, By Writing about Food
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Replay: Matthew Specktor shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction
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Replay: Matthew Zapruder shares Five Things He's Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos
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