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Reading is a contact sport
"We are being battered by ideas, and we are changing."
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Joe Deany-Braun
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Beneath the surface of our personalities
A craftsman, gardener, and father on the art of reading in public
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Rico Lighthouse
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Joe Deany-Braun
Dreaming the same strange dream over and over
The animal of the voice echoes in the valley of the mind
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Jason Hardung
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Joe Deany-Braun
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And we are suddenly never quite the same
Proust and the art of remembering others in ourselves
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Kristy Beachy-Quick
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Joe Deany-Braun
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Re-reading as re-membering
How many stars does it take to make a constellation? How many books fit in a milk crate?
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Callahan Woodbery
This Changes Everything | Tobias Bank
On origins, infinity, and the dance of ideas (plus: why Thom Yorke and Laurie Anderson are aliens)
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Joe Deany-Braun
33:53
The pricelessness of personhood | Jeff Chelf
On labor, futility, and the art of being alive
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Joe Deany-Braun
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Jeff Chelf
42:36
The burden of honest work | Jason Hardung
On writing, recovery, and the duty of self-worth
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Joe Deany-Braun
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Reading like an animal | Brandi Thomas
On attention, instinct, and the language of the observed
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Joe Deany-Braun
45:13
Calling out to ourselves | Robin Walter
On influence, hospitality, and the animal of the mind
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Joe Deany-Braun
48:22
Time does the deepening | John Flynn
On fear, comfort, and the epistemology of adventure
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Joe Deany-Braun
43:01
The diversity of change | Julia Goolsby
On infrastructure, ecology, and what lives inside a poem
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Joe Deany-Braun
41:15
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