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Maria Popova

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Started the blog Brain Pickings, now renamed to The Marginalian, in 2006. Features writing on books, the arts, philosophy, culture, and other subjects.

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Article Nov 25, 2022
David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists
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Book Feb 2, 2021
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story
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Article Dec 1, 2020
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
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Article Dec 27, 2019
How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe
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Article Oct 17, 2017
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
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Article Feb 23, 2016
W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
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Article Sep 15, 2015
Poet Jane Kenyon’s Advice on Writing: Some of the Wisest Words to Create and Live By
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Article Apr 25, 2013
The Paris Review Origin Story and Their Secret to the Art of the Interview
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Article Jul 5, 2012
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
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Article Jan 12, 2012
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
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The Marginalian
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Article Sep 9, 2021
The Blue Horses of Our Destiny: Artist Franz Marc, the Wisdom of Animals, and the Triumph of Beauty Over Brutality
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