“The Surabaya was a large steel box taking away his memories, devouring them” says Nobel Prize-Winning Author JMG LeClezio in his novel Onitsha. Boxes really are just simple containers. They hold things, separate them, sort them. A box has sides to it. Sometimes the sides are shapable, malleable — cardboard or paper-like material that can be pushed…
Spinning, spinning, spinning, twirling, twirling, speeding across the waves, the foam swallowing in a gulp at the beach. Chomp, chomp go the waves and the bubbles hiss as they fry against the sand. Regardless of temperature, the water has been shoved and forced powerfully to the shore and the sand must bear the weight and…
On a normal day in a normal way, madness would define itself as something so outside of experience that we can’t register it as part of our normality. An outlier. Something that happens to someone else. Something beyond comprehension and needing immediate attention. Something dangerous, crazy, impossible to interpret. Yet here we all are, sitting…
At the corner of Stockton and Wessel stands the greatest monument to white people in the city of Angelo. The tall white spire of the steeple extends high into the blue sky. People who visit say that spire reaches into the heavens and allows God a direct ladder to the sanctuary. In the sanctuary, sculpted…
Here are my favorite reads of 2018. Some of these books were published prior to 2018, but 2018 is when I read them! 1.) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Website: http://rebeccamakkai.com/ Reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/books/review/rebecca-makkai-great-believers.html https://pearcewriting.com/2018/12/21/the-great-believers-delivers-powerful-modern-message/ Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-believers-rebecca-makkai/1127236681?ean=9780735223523#/ Odyssey Bookshop: https://www.odysseybks.com/book/9780735223523 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Believers-Rebecca-Makkai/dp/0735223521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549215761&sr=8-1&keywords=the+great+believers 2.) Dark At The Crossing by Elliot…
Society just doesn’t want to expose what’s under its covers. In the United States, people are especially afraid of people who are different than themselves. Fear is transmitted from the institutional power structures that govern and the application of these power structures is brutal and destructive. Rebecca Makkai does so much more than break the…
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