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writing our grief

writing our grief

With bestselling author Stephanie Duncan Smith.

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Hi friends, it's precisely 0 degrees out this morning and on my second cup of coffee I'm excited to send you today's guest essay for Elena Brower's newsletter. This one's about the power of witnessing ourselves through a reflective writing practice, and I don't mean writing to publish, I mean the delicious joy of writing for you. I hope you enjoy it! -
Stephanie Duncan Smith
Boundless Emptiness, 2022.



That night in our twenties at the Argentinian restaurant on Lafayette Street, we couldn’t have fathomed it, we four—Josh, Blake, Dana and me. Cornell brought us together, and a decade on, there we were, stealing glances in the loo, making dreamy promises, drinking more than any of us needed to. Everything was possible.

We didn’…


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Stephanie Duncan Smith
Senior editor at HarperOne, creator of the Slant Letter Substack for writers, and author of Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway, available now.
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