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Luis Borba
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Author of "Ghosts of the Burning City". Now available.
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Cleaning the Dark: A Short Story
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March 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Education of a Wandering Man
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Education of a Wandering Man
By: Erik Rittenberry
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March 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This writer set up a 'grammar table' to bring people together over a love of language.

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This writer set up a 'grammar table' to bring people together over a love of language | CBC Radio
Ellen Jovin has toured her fold-out table across all 50 states, answering strangers’ grammar questions. Her goal? To bring people together through conversations about language.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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TypeTown #41: “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
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TypeTown #41: “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
🐷 George Orwell, Milan Kundera, Ulla West, and more...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy

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The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing
How to engineer the rewarding roller coaster of frustration and satisfaction.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Read my short story, "The Last Review" free on Substack.
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February 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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In an essay from 2017, Toni Morrison, who was born on this day, in 1931, recalled some lessons on work that she gleaned from her father. nyer.cm/1otRPRB
February 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Cleaning the Dark." Read my short story free on Substack:

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February 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Read my short story "The Last Review" on Substack:
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The Last Review: A Short Story
Short Fiction by Luis Borba
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February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Read my short story "Cleaning the Dark" for free on Substack.
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February 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The 24 most beautiful sentences I read in 2024
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The 24 most beautiful sentences I read in 2024
And by beautiful I mean lyrical, smart, honest, or contradictory.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Spotted in Mexico!

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February 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Great piece in @newyorker.com
What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.

The author of “Jurassic Park” understood that technologies often wriggle out of the grasp of their creators.

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What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
The author of “Jurassic Park” understood that technologies often wriggle out of the grasp of their creators.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Cleaning the Dark: Short Fiction
Read my short story for free on @SubstackInc
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Cleaning the Dark explores the reality and circumstances of good and evil in a world that values success over what is right and wrong.
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Cleaning the Dark: A Short Story
Short Fiction by Luis Borba
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January 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Decompress with (Junk) Journaling in the digital age:
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In a chronically online world, people are finding respite in ‘junk journaling’ | CNN
A freeform hybrid of collage, scrapbooking and traditional journaling, the creative hobby is having a moment right now.
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January 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I created the Spotify playlist for "Ghosts of the Burning City" as a soundtrack for the book. The first song, Nova Heart, by the Canadian band Spoons, brings me back to my youth. As catchy of a pop song as it is, its message always felt mysterious to me.

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January 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Letter printed in The Times, 1st Jan 2025.
Sir, I can attest to the power of handwriting (letters, Dec 26, 28, 30 & 31). My husband of 62 years and four months died a year ago. He remained my beloved until the end but I found that I couldn’t remember him as he was in his prime, which was distressing. During the Christmas break I found and reread for the first time the hundreds of letters we wrote to each other during our engagement: we lived in different countries, there was no internet, telephone was expensive and the post was cheap. It is wonderful therapy and a great comfort. I can hear and almost see him as he was then and I find myself falling in love with him all over again. Aude Fitzsimons Girton, Cambridge
January 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Firing up the old word processor and laying down the first words for my next novel.

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January 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960)
When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960)
The nature of marketing in the nearly-over 2010s, with all its unexpected brand crossovers and collaborations, gave rise to many strange commercial bedfellows.
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December 21, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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From my novel: Ghosts of the Burning City. A dystopian thriller.

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August 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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More sightings in cottage country for #ghostsoftheburningcity

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August 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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I have a new short story out called, "The Last Review". Free to all today and tomorrow on Kindle.

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July 16, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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"Ghosts of the Burning City" is sitting poolside.
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July 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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This is the Spotify companion playlist for my short story, "Cleaning the Dark." I hope you enjoy it.

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July 10, 2024 at 12:53 AM