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What's on Vauhini Vara's desk? Cards for a climbing gym, a karate federation, and "the business card of a man I once met at a reading whose life story I promised myself I’d write but never did."

Vara answers the Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/04/22/questionnaire-vauhini-vara/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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"It becomes a race. Get it done already. In my notes for one course I did, taught by an Australian novelist, I have: 'HOW LONG DOES THE READER HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS??'"

Jane O'Sullivan for The Sydney Review of Books: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/how-to-begin

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We asked Ibram X. Kendi: Sound or silence?

"I love the loudness of silence, as an introvert."

The CHAIN OF IDEAS author answers this week's Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/04/15/questionnaire-ibram-x-kendi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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"Ideas and turns of phrase shake loose on a long run. It’s thrilling."

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, New Yorker staff writer and LONDON FALLING author Patrick Radden Keefe shares what he's reading, where he does his best thinking, and more.

https://longreads.com/2026/04/08/questionnaire-patrick-radden-keefe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author R. O. Kwon shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel, and more.

https://longreads.com/2026/04/01/questionnaire-r-o-kwon/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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And you can't just assume that if one of the parties involved files, then everyone involved is taken care of. Milan wrote that she had to call up her translator to make sure she registered too, to get what was coming to her.

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Post from author Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com on Bluesky) March 22nd 2026, that reads: "This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so."

In "Good Writing," Neal Allen shares 36 tips to improve your sentences—and Anne Lamott weighs in on each one.

They bring that same dynamic to this week’s Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/03/18/questionnaire-neal-allen-anne-lamott/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, Julian Brave NoiseCat shares the writers who inspire him, what's shaped him most, and where he does his best thinking.

https://longreads.com/2026/03/11/questionnaire-julian-brave-noisecat/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Introducing The Longreads Questionnaire, a new series exploring how writers read, write, and create.

Maria Popova, the creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book TRAVERSAL, kicks off our inaugural edition.

https://longreads.com/2026/02/17/questionnaire-maria-popova/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Write to hone your #taste, because when anyone can generate infinite words, it’s your refined feeling that makes your work stand out.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/writing-is-feeling-in-motion

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For Rules [of writing], like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong. Edward Young, 1759

Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information.

The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government, friends, and family. This encourages some people to share their innermost thoughts they would otherwise not express. Of course it also encourages trolls, but there are plenty of trolls everywhere else.

Usenet is text-centric so unlike the fediverse there is not a stream of distracting images.

Even after all these years I still prefer reading and posting Usenet newsgroups over all other forms of so-called, 'social media'.

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