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Mark Dery

Mark Dery

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Nov 28, 2022

Rules for Writers: Tuning the Mind’s Ear

Rules for Writers: a series.

Rules for Writers: Tuning the Mind’s Ear

Mark Dery

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Nov 20, 2022

Rules for Writers: Similes Are Your Secret Weapon

Edward St. Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose novels (on which the Showtime miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch was based), writes…

Rules for Writers: Similes Are Your Secret Weapon

Mark Dery

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Nov 13, 2022

Rules for Writers: Elmore Leonard versus Verbs of Attribution

Rules for Writers: a series.

Rules for Writers: Elmore Leonard versus Verbs of Attribution

Mark Dery

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Nov 6, 2022

Rules for Writers: Joan Didion’s Checklist — Literary Lists, and How to Use Them

Rules for Writers: a series.

Rules for Writers: Joan Didion’s Checklist — Literary Lists, and How to Use Them

Mark Dery

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Oct 30, 2022

Rules for Writers: How Not to Respond to Hatchet Jobs

Rules for Writers: a series.

Rules for Writers: How Not to Respond to Hatchet Jobs

Mark Dery

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Oct 23, 2022

Rules for Writers: How to Write Your Own Eulogy

Rules for Writers: a series.

Rules for Writers: How to Write Your Own Eulogy

Mark Dery

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Aug 26, 2022

Effing the Ineffable: A Writer Takes Psilocybin

I took magic mushrooms in hopes of curing my existential malaise. Instead, the mushroom gave me a master class in the alien strangeness of…

Effing the Ineffable: A Writer Takes Psilocybin

Mark Dery

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Aug 11, 2022

A Medicine for Melancholy: How Magic Mushrooms Can Teach Us To Tell Ourselves New Stories.

The mind, as every writer knows too well, is an excellent servant but a terrible master. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is helping…

A Medicine for Melancholy: How Magic Mushrooms Can Teach Us To Tell Ourselves New Stories.

Mark Dery

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Aug 2, 2022

“I is an Other”: The Self is a Gothic Fiction

Is the self a story we tell ourselves in order to tie the “bundle of partly autonomous systems” we call our minds into a coherent story…

“I is an Other”: The Self is a Gothic Fiction

Mark Dery

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Jul 28, 2022

The Thing in the Mirror

What Depersonalization Taught Me, at Age Three, About the Strangeness of the Self and the Weirdness of the World — and How the Pandemic…

The Thing in the Mirror

Mark Dery

Mark Dery

Mark Dery is a cultural critic, author (https://www.markdery.com/books/), and writing coach (https://coaching.markdery.com/). E-mail: Markdery@gmail.com.

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