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Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?
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Yashvardhan Jain
I could write my Magnum Opus but I simply go to bed
Or, my struggles with choosing my creative self.
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When your dreams slowly fade away and you feel stuck in life...
A short letter to my lost self.
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A love of life (or lack thereof)
I have found that the optimism of adolescence is slowly replaced by the practicality of adulthood.
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What we lose when AI creates art
Or, it's not art if it is made by AI.
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The desire to quit reading and writing in the technological age.
Or, David Foster Wallace asks, "Why are we watching so much shit?"
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Fyodor and the Foxhole
Or, the search for meaning in a meaningless life.
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All The Lives We Cannot Live
On happiness, choice, and the liberating meaninglessness of our finite lives
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On Running, Writing, and Life: Some Advice from Haruki Murakami
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as…
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Yashvardhan Jain
Where would dreams go if you could give them up?
"Here's to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. Here's to the hearts that ache..."
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Dostoevsky's career advice to an aspiring artist
A traditional stable-seeming job or your heart's true passion? That is the question. To those, Fyodor Dostoevsky offers his advice, both timeless and…
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Waiting For What Never Was
Fiction Issue #2 : A Short Story
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