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Writer Gregor Hens doesn’t smoke anymore, but he used to — a lot. And as he explains in his memoir, Nicotine, he still thinks about it every day.

He writes, “Every form of cigarette ad gives me a pang of longing, every scrunched-up, carelessly thrown away cigarette packet at a bus stop, every trod-on cigarette butt, every beautiful woman holding a cigarette between her fingers or just looking like she could be holding one.”

He talked to NPR’s Kelly McEvers about the book – and his life as a smoker. Check out their conversation here.

– Petra

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I never left that Brooklyn. I never left it mentally, so I’m able to write from it. Even living here in Park Slope, which is kind of the opposite of where I grew up. Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me. I think even my existence today informs my memory of that past, in kind of a longing way, but also in the way of a kind of despair. I want that place remembered. I want people to understand the history of a place, and not take for granted that it mattered to someone, to a whole bunch of people, at another time, in a different way.

THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Jacqueline Woodson. (via therumpus)

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Need to talk to someone about your problems? Sit on the Friendship Bench. 

In Zimbabwe, it’s a safe place where trained community members counsel folks struggling with what they, in the local Shona language, call kufungisisa (“thinking too much”) – or what Americans call depression.

Read the full story here

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Very interested in this idea! -Emily

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People will pay for what they like. The business plan really should be underlined by the idea that whatever platform you’re on, you can be successful if your content is strong. A writer facing that situation has several choices. One choice is to get on as many platforms as they can, and try to become their own brand, thereby allowing them to promote themselves and to pick up additional money in speaking engagements or whatever. You just have to write if you’re going to write and find a way to get on the platforms that are most appropriate for what you’re writing. There are platforms that are good for long-form, and long-form is successful. You just don’t get paid as much for it as you did when those long pieces were only in magazines.

THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Terry McDonell. (via therumpus)

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