How Solitude Can Change Your Brain In Profound Ways

A little time alone can go a long way in spurring your creative thinking and strengthening relationships.I recently got back from a week of solitude in a house off Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. I was there to focus on finishing my book of short stories without distraction, conversations, emails, deadlines, and the thrum and pulse of New York City life, all competing for my attention.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves

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Coronavirus is affecting the Italian publishing industry in a big way.

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Publishers must change the story around neurodiversity

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The Library of the Future: New Ways To Think About Libraries

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Souvenir Press to reissue Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way

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What you can do about climate change, today

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Disney and HBG Go Their Own Way

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