Category: Cultural Trends
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“Writing Fiction in Turbulent Times”
This is the full content of my presentation from the evening of January 15 at the Fayetteville Public…
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“Writing Fiction in Turbulent Times”
>Writing is an incredibly lonely business. You have to lock the door, turn off the phone, put Facebook…
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Good, gooder, goodest.
Way back in 1770 the French philosopher, historian, and poet Voltaire wrote that “Perfect is the Enemy of…
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Prisoners in the museum
The classical Greek conception of the afterlife was not a particularly attractive one. In Homer’s universe, the vast…
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In the Mood
In a twenty-two-year-old farm boy from rural Alabama, barriers to comprehension were high. It didn’t take me long…
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A Likely Story
We all have our own sacred cows, ideas that are so deeply embedded in our psyches that we…
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Tire Tracks on the Putting Green
I’m not what you would call a fan of Donald Trump. To be honest, I doubt if I…
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Paddling Point Nemo
Any time you have more than one person in a room, you’re going to have differences. Despite these…
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Really and truly.
Voltaire pointed out in 1733 that “The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof…
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Elaine, let’s get the hell out of here.
Elaine de Kooning once recalled a party where she and another painter, Joan Mitchell, were asked, “What do…
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