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Mark Dery

Rules for Writers: Tuning the Mind’s Ear

Rules for Writers: a series.

Nov 28, 2022

Rules for Writers: Tuning the Mind’s Ear

Nov 28, 2022

Rules for Writers: Similes Are Your Secret Weapon

Edward St. Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose novels (on which the Showtime miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch was based), writes…

Nov 20, 2022

Rules for Writers: Similes Are Your Secret Weapon

Nov 20, 2022

Rules for Writers: Elmore Leonard versus Verbs of Attribution

Rules for Writers: a series.

Nov 13, 2022

Rules for Writers: Elmore Leonard versus Verbs of Attribution

Nov 13, 2022

Rules for Writers: Joan Didion’s Checklist — Literary Lists, and How to Use Them

Rules for Writers: a series.

Nov 6, 2022

Rules for Writers: Joan Didion’s Checklist — Literary Lists, and How to Use Them

Nov 6, 2022

Rules for Writers: How Not to Respond to Hatchet Jobs

Rules for Writers: a series.

Oct 30, 2022

Rules for Writers: How Not to Respond to Hatchet Jobs

Oct 30, 2022

Rules for Writers: How to Write Your Own Eulogy

Rules for Writers: a series.

Oct 23, 2022

Rules for Writers: How to Write Your Own Eulogy

Oct 23, 2022

Effing the Ineffable: A Writer Takes Psilocybin

I took magic mushrooms in hopes of curing my existential malaise. Instead, the mushroom gave me a master class in the alien strangeness of…

Aug 26, 2022

Effing the Ineffable: A Writer Takes Psilocybin

Aug 26, 2022

A Medicine for Melancholy: How Magic Mushrooms Can Teach Us To Tell Ourselves New Stories.

The mind, as every writer knows too well, is an excellent servant but a terrible master. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is helping…

Aug 11, 2022

A Medicine for Melancholy: How Magic Mushrooms Can Teach Us To Tell Ourselves New Stories.

Aug 11, 2022

“I is an Other”: The Self is a Gothic Fiction

Is the self a story we tell ourselves in order to tie the “bundle of partly autonomous systems” we call our minds into a coherent story…

Aug 2, 2022

“I is an Other”: The Self is a Gothic Fiction

Aug 2, 2022

The Thing in the Mirror

What Depersonalization Taught Me, at Age Three, About the Strangeness of the Self and the Weirdness of the World — and How the Pandemic…

Jul 28, 2022

The Thing in the Mirror

Jul 28, 2022

Mark Dery

Mark Dery

Mark Dery is a cultural critic, author (https://www.markdery.com/books/), and writing coach (https://coaching.markdery.com/). E-mail: Markdery@markdery.com.

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