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A Case Study in Desire
One book's prolonged birth pangs
Jan 13 • Amy L Bernstein
Interrogating Your Artistic Practice
What's really going on in that head of yours?
Jan 6 • Amy L Bernstein

December 2025

The Past Does Not Predict Your Future
Look ahead to the good stuff
Dec 30, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
Giving New Year’s Day Less Power
Leave the resolutions to the Babylonians
Dec 23, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
In Praise of Slow Starts
My love of boring first pages in the great-books canon
Dec 16, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
Letter to a One-Way Mountaineer
Reflections on one man's journey to find his last day
Dec 9, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
I Refused to Host a Podcast
And now it's payback time
Dec 2, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein

November 2025

Five Ways to Address the Sabotage Caused by Self-Doubt
Mindsets to help you strike a better balance
Nov 25, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
Existential Interlude
Reflections on a time out of joint
Nov 18, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
Can Writers Ever Truly Be Happy?
Radically redefining goals may hold the key
Nov 11, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
The Case of the Shrinking Novel
The mystery of saying more with less
Nov 4, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein

October 2025

Creativity and the Moment: Is This Yours?
Formula as friend or foe
Oct 28, 2025 • Amy L Bernstein
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