Time seems to move more slowly on some continents than others; I settled in Europe hoping for a temporal reprieve. Surely I’d be more compatible with the rhythm of the Netherlands....

Like New York, Amsterdam is a bookish place. When I arrived in the late 90s, the only missing element (predictably) was a steady place to explore writing—in English. That’s why I started the Amsterdam Writing Workshops: to give myself and others a professional place to learn more about writing...and so to make Amsterdam an inch more like the New York that existed when I came of age.
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