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On Privacy and Solitude
There are two truths against which the networked, cabled world with all its unutterable speed and weight flings itself with a roar like the ocean…
E. Lily Yu
Feb 27
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Teleology
The idea of looking at objects and phenomena in terms of their goals arose with Plato and Aristotle. Here I steal the term teleology (from telos, end…
E. Lily Yu
Jan 16
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Letters to Another Writer
Half a conversation over several years
E. Lily Yu
Jan 1, 2020
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An amuse-bouche on a different plate
Who am I kidding, I threw the literary equivalent of a rock through a window, and you can find it over at Locus Magazine today. And it is thanks to your…
E. Lily Yu
Mar 6, 2021
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On Giving Up
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. —Yeats, “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” In a job interview in May…
E. Lily Yu
Jan 29
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Small Mercies
On certain days that are dark and hard, as well as some days that are bright and easy, I pour British-style tea, Earl Gray or cardamom black or…
E. Lily Yu
Apr 8, 2021
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Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes, briefly
Like hundreds of other people, perhaps even two hundred people, I have spent years being baffled by the microscopy notes and photographs in mushroom…
E. Lily Yu
Dec 16, 2021
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On the Cost of All Things
Three times in two weeks, I became aware of small, difficult choices that I would have to make, choices with no clear good outcome, that would likely…
E. Lily Yu
Apr 18, 2021
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Queenright
I read Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee very early in my life, led there by epigraphs in Laurie R. King’s On The Segregation of the Queen, and…
E. Lily Yu
May 14
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Flash and Substance
I was asked recently about how one writes flash fiction, which is the form my first published stories took. (Example.) The piece of flash fiction most…
E. Lily Yu
Aug 4, 2021
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A Short List of Good Books for Writers
Some stones for the path
E. Lily Yu
Jan 15, 2021
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The Lake
…then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
E. Lily Yu
Feb 21, 2021
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