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Getting to the ocean floor
how to clear out the buzz of logistics in your brain so you can write something actually good
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Donna Zuckerberg
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what we talk about when we talk about thinking about Rome
An interview with Rhiannon Garth Jones
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Donna Zuckerberg
drinking beer with crazy straws and enslaved readers as the AI of antiquity
A conversation with Jackie Murray about Plato and how AI hurts students and scholars
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Donna Zuckerberg
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Happy 10th Birthday to Eidolon
April 27, 10 days ago, marks ten years to the day since the launch of Eidolon. It’s hard to believe that it’s been an entire decade since the day when I…
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Donna Zuckerberg
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playing Blue Prince will make you a better writer
If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re probably kind of a book nerd.
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Donna Zuckerberg
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don't write a book (unless you have to)
and if you have to, I'm sorry and I get it
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Donna Zuckerberg
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the ancient pickup line that would probably work on me
Love stories from Greek and Roman myth and literature come in a few different sub-genres, and they’re all pretty toxic:
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Myth Takes
Myth Takes
Irreverent feminist analysis of classics, culture, and life by Donna Zuckerberg: writer, recovering academic, and abuser of ascending tricola.
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