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If I told you everything has felt too terrible to write anything not-fiction, would you know what I was saying?
Mar 1
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Lynn Steger Strong
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January 2026
In Florida
In Florida, I get up every morning before the sun comes up to watch the light on water shift, the blotted gray and then the pink and orange, turned to…
Jan 1
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Lynn Steger Strong
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November 2025
Class Rhymes
For our last class on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping this semester, my undergrads and I looked closely at the beginning, middle, and end.
Nov 25, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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July 2025
Ontological Marathon
A few months ago, a beloved former student offered to get me a bib for the New York marathon.
Jul 26, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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Raking Sand
Over a few months my sophomore year of college, I spent a good amount of time in the office of a dean who was trying to kick me out.
Jul 14, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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May 2025
On Mothering and Writing Books
Don’t have a lot left in the tank right now, but our younger kid turned eleven this week (I sent this piece a week or so before our older turned…
May 11, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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April 2025
To Be a Writer
Almost exactly twenty years ago, I moved to New York to be a writer, having no idea at all what that meant.
Apr 7, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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March 2025
Art Ninjas
Miyoko Ito, Untitled 126, 1970, Untitled, 1970
Mar 30, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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Andrew Martin: Fiction with Teeth
I’m writing to you all from my couch, rattled, terrified.
Mar 22, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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To Make Real
(a brief caveat to say: this piece is about “Sonny’s Blues,” which I have written to you about before; I love this story; I could write to you about it…
Mar 19, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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Legibility and Cake
Wayne Theibaud, “Folsom Street Fair Cake,” Crocker Art Museum, 2013.
Mar 10, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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February 2025
A class, event, a book
I’m so very very sorry to send two emails in two days.
Feb 25, 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong
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