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- 03/24/2019 - Remembering W.S. Merwin with the greatest advice on creative work ever committed to words, a Nobel-winning physicist on science and spirituality &more
- 03/17/2019 - Patti Smith on creativity and William Blake, the stunning natural history illustrations of 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, Jill Lepore on history
- 03/10/2019 - Toni Morrison on wisdom in the age of information, a lyrical illustrated meditation on loneliness, Anne Gilchrist's stunning love letters to Whitman
- 03/03/2019 - Hannah Arendt on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss, Hermann Hesse on solitude, courage, and how to find your destiny, and more
- 02/24/2019 - Thoreau on change, Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran on the courage to disillusion yourself, and more
- 02/17/2019 - Neil Gaiman's stunning ode to the courage of speaking truth to power, Iris Murdoch on art as resistance, Melville's electric love letters to Hawthorne
- 02/10/2019 - Remembering a dear friend, the story behind one of the loveliest, profoundest poems ever written, what a mountain teaches about time and transcendence
- 02/10/2019 - "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."
- 02/08/2019 - Tonight, free livestream from Brooklyn: Figuring with Elizabeth Gilbert
- 02/05/2019 - "Figuring" (my book) is out today.
- 02/03/2019 - Jane Goodall's lovely letter to children about how reading shaped her life, philosopher Maurice Blanchot on writing and what it really means to see
- 01/27/2019 - David Whyte on love, Hermann Hesse on solitude, the value of hardship, and how to find your destiny, Nick Cave on art in the age of AI
- 01/20/2019 - Mary Oliver: “The most regretful people… are those… who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
- 01/13/2019 - Neil Gaiman reads Ursula K. Le Guin's ode to timeless to his 100-year-old cousin, "Dracula" author Bram Stoker's love letter to Walt Whitman, and more
- 01/11/2019 - Live celebration in NYC: Figuring with Elizabeth Gilbert
- 01/06/2019 - Walt Whitman on confidence through criticism, Rebecca Solnit's lovely letter to children about how books solace, empower, and transform us, and more
- 12/30/2018 - Ursula K. Le Guin on creativity and integrity in a market society, John Muir on the transcendent interconnectedness of nature, and more
- 12/28/2018 - The best of Brain Pickings 2018, in one place
- 12/24/2018 - The Christmas Truce of 1914 — a heartening story of humanity and kindness in the midst of war
- 12/23/2018 - A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor on how books save lives, Nietzsche's brilliant thought experiment illustrating the key to existential contentment
