For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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The Marginalian: Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life
Here’s the link to this article. BY MARIA POPOVA Long before there was Yo-Yo Ma, there was Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor Pablo Casals (December 29, 1876–October 22, 1973), regarded…
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The God Illusion: Why You Can’t Have a Relationship with God
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Flash Fiction: The Unlikely Columnist
Born and raised in the heart of Georgia, Nathan had always been surrounded by the comforting embrace of Southern Baptist tradition. From a young age, he attended church…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 13
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 12
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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The Marginalian: How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
Here’s the link to this article. BY MARIA POPOVA We live in a culture that dreads the entropic inevitability of growing older, treats it like a disease to…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 11
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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Snowflake Summaries–Love Songs, by Lawrence Sanders
The primary aim of the “Snowflake Summaries” blog category is to showcase the creative writing of great authors. I use Randy Ingermanson’s ‘Snowflake’ method to create these summaries.…
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The God Illusion: This Is Exactly Why I’m an Atheist
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 10
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
Richard L. Fricks 