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At The Millions, Jacob Lambert shares a letter written to an unknown teenager who annotated and “ruined” his secondhand copy of Ragtime. Lambert expresses bewilderment over the passages that the teenager highlighted,…

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Portman’s Pen Pals

Guia Cortassa
July 26, 2016

Apparently, Jonathan Safran Foer wasn’t the only one exchanging emails with Natalie Portman. At The Millions, Jacob Lambert shares excerpts from the supposed epistolary relationship between the actress and no less…

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Read All These

Roxie Pell
December 1, 2015

Why stuff your body with Thanksgiving leftovers when you could be stuffing your bag with used books? It was another reminder that I will surely die before I read all…

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Does Music “Unleash Latent Genius”?

Jake Slovis
September 29, 2015

For The Millions, Jacob Lambert explores how listening to music while writing can influence performance. Although some studies show that music may impede concentration and “disrupt writing fluency,” others suggest that…

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Ragtime and the Mysterious Teenage Highlighter

Portman’s Pen Pals

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Does Music “Unleash Latent Genius”?

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