Carlyn Zwarenstein

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Toronto writer on literature (carlynzwaren.substack.org), science (especially #medsci), and solidarity. or drugs/books/struggle. up/down. fiction/reality. beauty/misery. Author of 2 books (most recently, On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance) #drugpolicy #spoonie #pain #infectiousdisease #harmreduction #meded #canlit #romanticism #capitalism #journalism #bookstodon #bookmastodon. DM for Signal. https://www.verifiedjournalist.org/people/@[email protected]
Books & journalismhttps://www.carlynzwarenstein.com
Live More Lives newsletterhttps://carlynzwaren.substack.com
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Today's Live More Lives newsletter riffs on the concept of the memory palace. If you love fiction, wonder, and literary enchantment, please do check it out and share with all your most special and discerning, bookish friends. https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/in-the-memory-palace?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
In the memory palace

Riffing on a memorable concept, and how it relates to fiction and experience.

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Today's Live More Lives is full of wonderful writers to discover and #books to read. Please read, share, and subscribe to join our merry band of seekers of literary wonder and bookish experience. #literature #amreading #bookstodon #writing #fiction https://carlynzwaren.substack.com/p/novels-about-novels-about-novels
Novel-gazing novels

and writers writing about writers

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Today's Live More Lives includes the usual Sunday long essay--this week, on the expansive nature of the novel and the amazing range of experiences that are possible in novels, even impossible ones--but you'll also a really big discount on paid subscriptions (giving you the Friday miscellany & access to the archives), a free event I'm speaking at onThursday at the University of Toronto, and other stuff. #amreading #amwriting #fiction #books #bookworm #substack #novels https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/the-limits-of-possibility?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The limits of possibility

Do limits exist in the novel? Lots of news today, some thoughts on dark skies, and consideration of what sort of boundaries can be used to define the novel.

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I'm so happy with today's Live More Lives, which is the one I have wanted to write from the minute I started, on #adventure. Please share this post and do come join your fellow seekers of #wonder and enchantment through the magical links between #literature and experience! https://carlynzwaren.substack.com/p/adventure-time #amreading #bookstodon #amwriting #books #fiction #substack #livemorelives
Adventure Time

Watch now (1 sec) | The optic nerve, & a monopoly on skeletons

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It's spring! it's spring! it's spring! Today's LIVE MORE LIVES is all about that. & surgery. & set pieces. Fellow imaginators and lovers of glorious life, come join us in living more lives through fiction. #amreading #fiction #books #bookstodon #substack #literature https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/the-bird-is-on-the-wing-friday-april?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The bird is on the wing: Friday, April 7th, 2023

On set pieces, sock burning, surgery, and spring (for real this time).

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Love #fiction but can't seem to focus on it? Don't panic! Here's what to do when you are cut off from your imaginary #book friends and all the additional lives they let you live. The latest essay from Live More Lives. https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/i-want-to-read-why-cant-i-read?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #bookstodon #amreading #amwriting #reading
I want to read why can't I read?

What to do when difficulty concentrating on fiction means you are reduced to living just one life.

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The latest Live More Lives is holding out for spring. I hope you enjoy this one--please share freely and sign yourself up by Saturday night to get the Sunday essay in your inbox by 6 am--this week, it'll be on why so many of us find it hard to concentrate on fiction, and what to do about it so that it can be the escape and solace you remember from childhood. https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/daylight-savings-and-being-saved?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #amreading #amwriting #book #bookstodon #fiction #literature
Daylight savings, saved by art: Friday, March 17th, 2023

Today's miscellany is holding out for spring. How, if we're lucky, art may disturb us right back to life.

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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

In today's Live More Lives newsletter, I consider the ways in which novels haunt us, and how literary memories and consciousness interact.

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https://carlynzwaren.substack.com/p/the-dark-earth-spins-friday-feb-24 Dear #reader friends, this is my latest Live More Lives newsletter. Please check it out and consider signing up for them before Sunday so that you can find the Sunday essay, which I'm quite proud of so far, curled up in your inbox by 6 am. This is an email newsletter for serious, literary and academic-minded readers and writers, and also, very much, for the rest of us, who simply remember how wonderful #fiction can be and who would like to rediscover that wonder. Check the About page at carlynzwaren.substack.com for more about this project. #literature #worldlit #books #bookstodon #booklover #amreading #reading #amwriting #medhum #canlit
The dark earth spins: Friday, Feb 24

Today's miscellany is mostly about Neruda and the spinning earth

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My Sunday essay for LIVE MORE LIVES, the free (paid subscriptions are welcome but not required) new newsletter about literature & experience I began on Substack a couple of weeks ago. It's growing quickly and I'm excited to know there are so many Gentle Readers out there. Please join us!

https://open.substack.com/pub/carlynzwaren/p/this-thing-thats-just-like-that-other?r=nkhn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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This thing that's just like that other thing

Your Sunday longread has arrived!

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