Craft Capsule: The “Routine” of Writing With Chronic Pain
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth shares how chronic pain has forced her to challenge traditional notions of writing productivity.
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
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“It’s all about providing access, not only to education, not only to learning, but also to a free public space where people can actually come together and engage,” says copresident Andreas Dracopoulos of the newly renovated and transformed Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, a branch of the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan that reopened in June.
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