Heel goed gesprek, dank Coen! (Dit is 1 van mijn favo podcasts! Pieter is een hele goede interviewer!)

🙏🏼 Thank you for taking the time @dziblatt.bsky.social

Next week’s conversation with @katemcnamara.bsky.social

He reminds us that the work of writing, slow, deliberate, full of revision, mirrors the work of democracy itself: staying with difficulty to resolve contradictions

Full conversation here 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Ziblatt’s advice to his students should be etched on every writer’s desk:

- Do your own writing.
- Bring your history to the problem.
- Write now, revise later.

Three short lines form an entire philosophy of the craft of writing.

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He told me: “Writing really reminds me of practicing the piano. You work away at it. Time disappears. It’s frustrating and exhilarating at once.”

It’s such a beautiful image: writing as practice, not performance. Precision as discipline.

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Ziblatt treats writing not as performance, but as a form of public thinking.

He writes with patience & accountability to his readers.

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