Mark DeryRules for Writers: Tuning the Mind’s EarRules for Writers: a series.·6 min read·Nov 28, 2022--2--2
Mark DeryRules for Writers: Similes Are Your Secret WeaponEdward St. Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose novels (on which the Showtime miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch was based), writes…·7 min read·Nov 20, 2022----
Mark DeryRules for Writers: Elmore Leonard versus Verbs of AttributionRules for Writers: a series.·6 min read·Nov 13, 2022----
Mark DeryRules for Writers: Joan Didion’s Checklist — Literary Lists, and How to Use ThemRules for Writers: a series.·10 min read·Nov 6, 2022----
Mark DeryRules for Writers: How Not to Respond to Hatchet JobsRules for Writers: a series.·9 min read·Oct 30, 2022--3--3
Mark DeryRules for Writers: How to Write Your Own EulogyRules for Writers: a series.·8 min read·Oct 23, 2022--1--1
Mark DeryEffing the Ineffable: A Writer Takes PsilocybinI took magic mushrooms in hopes of curing my existential malaise. Instead, the mushroom gave me a master class in the alien strangeness of…·14 min read·Aug 26, 2022--7--7
Mark DeryA 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…·13 min read·Aug 11, 2022--2--2
Mark Dery“I is an Other”: The Self is a Gothic FictionIs 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…·9 min read·Aug 2, 2022--1--1
Mark DeryThe Thing in the MirrorWhat Depersonalization Taught Me, at Age Three, About the Strangeness of the Self and the Weirdness of the World — and How the Pandemic…·11 min read·Jul 28, 2022----