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		<title>Runaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have zero recollection of the movie Runaway coming out in 1984 — and, more tellingly, no recollection of it playing on cable or coming up in conversation after that. At some point in this last decade, it came up somehow, as a bit of a punchline, because it features Gene Simmons — yes, Gene [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>His supposed deal with the devil became a marketing trope.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blues music is respected now, but, as David Epstein’s explains (in Inside the Box), it was known in its early days as “the devil’s music.” Pious families learned that blues shouldn’t be played in the house. [Robert] Johnson learned a different lesson: that competent guitar players could attract whiskey, women, and a little spending cash. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The result would be a new book about every eighteen months for the next forty-three years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was only vaguely aware of Isabelle Allende — I knew she was a Spanish-speaking magical realist — when I came across David Epstein’s explanation (in Inside the Box) of her way of working — starting with a bit of backstory: In 1970, Salvador Allende, the first cousin of Isabel’s father, was elected president of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucy Westenra was apparently AB positive (AB+)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I recently revisited Dracula, I noticed that Van Helsing treats Lucy Westenra with a blood transfusion, as Dr. Seward explains: Van Helsing and I were shown up to Lucy’s room. If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I finally read Dracula, I was struck by the number of visually interesting scenes that I didn’t remember from any of the movie versions I’d seen. For instance, when Harker is a prisoner in Dracula’s castle, he sees something he can’t quite believe: As I leaned from the window my eye was caught by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ideas that made an impact in the long run were those that embedded something new in something already established</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare’s era, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), creativity was more associated with the ability to improve upon something that existed than with sheer originality: If the audience already knew the story, they could readily take in the unique aspects that each new creator brought to it. […] Robert McKee, in his classic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DC Comics became its distributor and limited Atlas to eight newsstand titles each month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the editor in chief of Atlas Comics, Stan Lee, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), led a revenue strategy of cranking out tons of dispensable romance, Westerns, and science fiction: Then in 1957, Atlas’s rival DC Comics became its distributor, and limited Atlas to eight newsstand titles each month. With the high-volume strategy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The language had to be simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), was nearly thirty and running a jazz club when he started writing: He blocked his native language. He wrote in his extremely limited English, and then translated it into Japanese. “I could only write in simple, short sentences,” he recalled. “The language had to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Composition takes place in a cul-de-sac of the customary</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/composition-takes-place-in-a-cul-de-sac-of-the-customary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales discussed Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, David Bowie’s “Heroes”, and Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, in an episode about how staying in your comfort zone isn’t always the best option and that disruption can feed creativity. David Epstein makes those same points in Inside the Box and covers that same [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In print, the audience could slow down, or reread</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/in-print-the-audience-could-slow-down-or-reread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box) how he pitched a story to NPR’s This American Life: I had no experience writing to a time limit, only a word limit, so the draft was seven minutes over the allotted time. And while listeners around the table loved the concept, they were confused. The medical-mystery story [&#8230;]]]></description>
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