David Dark on resisting “deferential fear”
…to have said, “Every force evolves a form.” Sit with the feelings, feel their force, give them a form. During Nashville’s lunch counter sit-ins, there were those who found themselves…
Poet, memoirist, and playwright Dan O’Brien discusses his three new books
…Plath, Lowell, and many more — these writers lent me their strength because they made themselves vulnerable as they made their struggles artful — that is, meaningful. Which leads me…
In The Forsaken and the Dead, Sidney Thompson portrays the final years of famed lawman Bass Reeves
…played there. One reason robbers liked the cave was that they couldn’t be trapped in it. They had these escape holes and could climb up the ropes. They couldn’t be…
On losing the joy of autumn and finding it again
…October the craziness of the beginning of the semester is over, but the equal insanity of the rush before finals has not started. And it seems that every weekend has…
Molly McGhee’s debut novel takes a surreal look at modern employment
…the next. There are inconsistencies in the narrative voice here, which a generous reading could attribute to the dreamlike quality of the novel. For instance, the narration in the opening…
