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Dr. Eric Verdin

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Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System

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Meg Wolitzer

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Writing about Family

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Benjamin Dreyer

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How to Make Writing Better

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Pauline Frommer

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The Power of a Life-Changing Vacation

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Steve Almond

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Where Stories Come From

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Elissa Epel

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Stress and Aging

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Grant Faulkner

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The Art of Brevity

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Laurie R. King

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What Makes Mysteries Great

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Steven Austad

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What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives

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Brooke Warner

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What It Takes to Get Published

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Jerry Saltz

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Where Art and the Art World are Right Now

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Phil Klay

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Thinking and Writing about Citizenship

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James Surowiecki

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How to Write about Ideas

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Robbie Fulks

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The Nature of Songs

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Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

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The Two Hollywoods

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Nicholas Buccola

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Freedom, from Frederick Douglass

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Thomas Dyja

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How to Live in a City

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Marc Freedman

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The Power that Comes from Connecting Generations

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Ashton Applewhite

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Ageism

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Nir Barzilai

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The New Science of Longevity

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Louise Aronson

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Elderhood

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Gordon Lithgow

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How to Live Better Longer

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Paul Irving

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The Upside of Aging

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Peter Orner

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Writing (by Not Writing)

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LTC (Ret.) Alexander Vindman

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Responding to Russian Aggression and the War in Ukraine

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David W. Blight

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The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography

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Roosevelt Montás

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Self-Transformation, by Reading Ancient Books

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Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

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America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

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Myisha Cherry

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The Social Uses of Anger

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James Surowiecki

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The Wisdom and Madness of Social Media

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Hayes Carll

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Songwriting – in Five Songs

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Brooke Warner

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How Women Writers Thrive

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Mary Gauthier

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The Healing Power of Songwriting – in Five Songs

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James Fox

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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: What Our Government Still Doesn’t Know – and All It Does.

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Timothy Hampton

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Cheerfulness

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Rick Wilson

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How We Win the Messaging Wars and Save Democracy

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Lewis Watts

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Documenting Migration and Culture

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Larissa Zimberoff

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What Will Be On Our Plate in Ten Years

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Jonathan Taplin

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The Future of Media and Democracy

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Allison Moorer

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What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.

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Sam Wasson

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The Last Time I Saw Hollywood

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Julie Lythcott-Haims

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Making Love Work

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James Gray

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Craft, and the Movies

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Bob Thurman

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Wisdom, Bliss, and Openness

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John Lissauer

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Leonard Cohen: The Songwriter and the Secret Chord

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Judy Collins

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Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music

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Nicholas Buccola

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Love, from James Baldwin

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Perla Batalla

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Leonard Cohen: His Women, Onstage and Backstage

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Steven Johnson

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Where Creativity Comes From

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Timothy Hampton

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Listening to Bob Dylan

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Anne Midgette

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The Women Who Shaped Classical Music

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Judith Curr

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How Publishing Works

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Sylvie Simmons

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The Life of Leonard Cohen

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Molly Haskell

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Movie Love in the Sixties and Seventies

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Elizabeth George

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Editing My Own Work

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Russell Shorto

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How Manhattan Became “The Island at the Center of the World”

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Joe Henry

Five Things I've Learned

by Song

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Alexander Payne

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Film Making and Film Watching

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Phillip Lopate

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Reading and Writing the Essay

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Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate

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Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future

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Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner

Five Things I've Learned About

What It Takes to Finish a Book

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Rabih Alameddine

Five Things I've Learned About

Being Grumpy

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Nicole Tung

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Documenting Stories of Conflict

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Russell Shorto

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Writing Family History

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Nina Collins

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Women and Aging

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Simon Winchester

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The Joy of Dictionaries

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Aaron Dworkin

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How Social Change Really Happens

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Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro

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The Art of the Interview

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Janine di Giovanni

Five Things I've Learned About

Writing Narrative Non-Fiction

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Cara Black

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Crafting a Sense of Place

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Jerry Saltz

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How to Look at Art

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Isabel Allende

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Writing Fiction

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Pico Iyer

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The Art of Stillness

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BJ Miller

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Living and Dying During the Pandemic

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Catherine Grace Katz

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Writing the History We Think We Know

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Lisa Immordino Vreeland

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Documenting the Lives I Admire Most

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Janine di Giovanni

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Moral Injury and its Personal Consequence

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Elizabeth Lesser

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How the Hero’s Journey Changes When Women are the Storytellers

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Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro

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Deepening the Creative Flow

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Laurie R. King

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How Characters Come to Life

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Brooke Warner

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Giving Voice to What Matters in the New Year

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Anne Midgette

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How to Love Opera Like an Insider

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Don George

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How to be a Travel Writer

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