EPISODE · Jan 9, 2026 · 5 MIN
About Working in the Dark and Being Completely Lost
from A Writer's Diary Podcast · host Toby Litt
Today's subject is writing in the dark - what Donald Barthelme called (in a famous essay) 'the not knowing'.I'm starting with an even more famous quote from Henry James, and talking about what it feels like to be lost and perhaps bewildered. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
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