Day 3 of our Book Club on Kate Zambreno’s Heroines
Day 2 of our Book Club on Kate Zambreno’s Heroines.
Day 1 of our book club on Kate Zambreno’s Heroines
Nothing shakes the branch of mortality like an abandoned amusement park.
Searching for Zion, Searching for Home
In both the house of fiction and in all houses and homes, one still hears the deep stirring of the unhomely, of the destabilizing voices that rupture an unjust country.
Our uncertainty about any ending is all the more reason why we should look at the recent past with holstered hubris, not revolutionary fervor.
Until the news of his death arrives, Art Garfunkel lives in the specific limbo of the used-to-be-famous. He does not currently record, perform, act, or write. But he is very much alive on the internet.
A writer’s life is full of moments when you feel you’re starting from absolute scratch.
Writing is always partly artifice, a lie — a selection and arrangement of some things, the omission of others. Truth, in a straightforward sense anyway, can be beside the point.
In the Universe of Wonders and Astonishments
If we consider 1968 as the apex of the Baby Boomer’s revolutionary spirit, 40 years later many people are still engaged in the shoving contest known as the culture wars over who was right, and more importantly, how we should live our lives.