Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

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A Year to Review

Some Thoughts about a Cardinal

The Power Struggle

Four in the Morning

The Life With A Hole In It

Sculptors and Speakers

The Musicality

Notes on Giving Criticism

Language Distinctions

A Private Notebook

To The Smallest Particle

Of Two Minds

How We Read Now

Stale, Fatigued, and Hushed

Rotten Art

An Extraordinary Career

Punctuation

In Case of Emergency Break Glass

Lost Ideas

Distant Memories

Impermanence

A Sense of Prudence

A Detective's Expertise

Golfinhos

Past as Prologue

A Difficult Time Writing

Discovering A Memory

Prepared Emotions

Nude Writers

The Anxiety of Influence

Fateful

There Won't Be Any Covid Novels

The Guilt of the Innocent

A Distortion of Fact

Perpetual Motion

The Sensation of Distance

Out-Sickness

A Cold Wind

A Low Dishonest Decade

All Those Fanatical Writers

Soundless

The Correspondents

More Than One Mistake

Against The Novel of Validation

The Result of Chance

Reader Questions—The Problem With Contemporary Writing

The Problem With Contemporary Writing

The World On Trial

Dinner in Paris

The Real You

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