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Learn MoreMoving Mountains in Nineteenth-Century France
Kelly Presutti— What do Mont Blanc and Notre Dame de Paris have in common? While it is a well-ingrained habit to classify natural and human-made features as separate domains, both…
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Tilar J. Mazzeo— Learning to do something new and hard requires, above all, a certain kind of mindset. Something a Zen practitioner (which I am not) might call a beginner’s…
Read MoreThe "Why I Write" series is based on the Windham–Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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