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Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed
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A Sense of Where You Are
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
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gojomoonDec 1, 2016
philshemonJuly 6, 2020
And this famous quote from that book:
> “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility."
Edit: before the book was the New Yorker article, if you want to “try before you buy” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever
JoeboyonApr 4, 2016
Edit: Jon Ronson on The Shaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtDf82a3pM