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    The Time Is Now

    Jun 16, 2021 2 minutes

    Suggested Reading: Our Endless and Proper Work: Starting (and Sticking to) Your Writing Practice (Belt Publishing, June 2021) by Ron Hogan

    Emerging from a newsletter the author launched in 2018 called “Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives” () and taking its title from a line in a Mary Oliver poem (“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work”), this inspiring volume helps readers not offers a powerful realignment of priorities for the creative writer.

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