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Ryan Ruby

Berlin, Germany
As seen in: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, New York Review of Books, Poetry Off the Shelf, Literary Hub, The New Statesman, Interview Magazine, The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine and
Novel: The Zero and the One @twelvebooks 2017 | Poem: Context Collapse @7StoriesPress 2024 | Nonfiction: Ringbahn @fsgbooks 2027
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The Ashtray, by Ryan Ruby

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By Ryan Ruby
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From a manuscript in progress. The ash in an ashtray is honest the way a hopscotch court Drawn in peppermint chalk is honest, the way no writing, not Even a diary, is honest, even though it too is a record of sorts, A record of the number of breaths drawn while writing at night. The child who drew the court yesterday afternoon understands Something he does not know—that all impermanent things end. It is the same thing that his parents know but do not understand.
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The Ashtray, by Ryan Ruby

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By Ryan Ruby
| Harper's Magazine Verified
By Ryan Ruby, from a manuscript in progress. The ash in an ashtray is honest the way a hopscotch court Drawn in peppermint chalk is honest, the way no writing, not Even a diary, is honest, even though it too is a record of sorts, A record of the number of breaths drawn while writing at night. The child who drew the court yesterday afternoon understands Something he does not know—that all impermanent things end. It is the same thing that his parents know but do not understand.
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The CIA: patron of the arts

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By Ryan Ruby
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The CIA helped to translate Pasternak’s novel. (Doctor Zhivago / MGM) Like most writers, I think a lot about money, though I know it’s considered bad form to say so. It’s not that I don’t share my fellow artists’ prejudice that money is dirty, that commerce compromises personal integrity and profanes the sacred, that quantitative approaches to value are insidious, or that selling out is a vice.
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