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William Ryan

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The Interstitial

The Secret History of Simple Objects

How Small Things Can Make for Big Stories

Oct 11

An abstract photograph of an outdoor clock and its reflection, seemingly suspended in space.

Oct 11

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Full Frame

The Importance of Printing Your Photographs

An Antidote to Time Anxiety

Oct 16

Blurry, black-and-white shot through a window. A child and woman by a swimming pool.

Oct 16

Published in
The Interstitial

Equilibrium — A Poem With Visuals

Does Everything Always Even Out?

Nov 26

A close-up picture of an egret standing in the surf on the edge of the ocean. A soft, gray day.

Nov 26

Published in
Full Frame

How Photography Has Helped Me Overcome Clinical Depression

Another Case of Art Over Entropy

Nov 1

Shape of a figure in a hooded jacket through a bus window. There is the reflection of a yellow bar over their head, and they are using a walker to move. Their face is entirely hidden.

Nov 1

Published in
Counter Arts

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer

A meditation for writers and other solitary artists

Sep 19

Close up of hand holding pen on blank page

Sep 19

How to Sell Your First Screenplay and Become Rich

A Poem Wherein the Author Describes the Hollow Whoring-out of Experience For Financial Gain

Sep 13

Blurry, black-and-white shot through a window. A child and woman by a swimming pool.

Sep 13

Developing True Intelligence: Is This F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Greatest Insight?

Our World Needs a New Way of Thinking

Aug 29

Black and white portrait of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald at his desk

Aug 29

Your Creativity Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Schedule or To-Do List

There Are Many Paths Towards A Shared Goal

Aug 28

Renaissance painting of the Greek god Apollo and two muses, all in a state of rapture.

Aug 28

Read This Writer! The Weird World of Anna Kavan

Genius, Drug Addiction and a Proto Feminist Nightmarescape

Aug 27

Black and white portrait photograph of the writer, Anna Kavan

Aug 27

This is Depression: A Waiting Room You Can Never Leave

Mental Health, Hope and Time

Aug 20

A surrealist painting of Christ in Limbo by the painter Jheronimus Bosch

Aug 20

William Ryan

William Ryan

Writer, photographer--connoisseur of various neuroses. I talk about art, ideas and the creative process, with a slight focus on mental health and spirituality.

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