Childhood as a Place
Writes my smart poet/translator friend E.C. Belli: Because we are so multi-rooted, because we are from everywhere, we are no longer really from a place.…
On Growing Up Under a Dictatorship
Poet and novelist Alejandro Zambra on "Silence and Silencing," via BombBlog (via Montana Ray): The language of parents, the silence of our parents: sometimes we didn’t…
Jonathan Lethem on Being a Young Writer
"Experiment, play, dare to be really bad, fool around, and just notice what an incredible luxury it is to be in this formative, uncertain, experimental…
“The real woman is not up in the clouds nor among the stars…”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on gender parity from 1874: The talk about women being so much above men, celestial, ethereal, and all that, is sentimental nonsense.…
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Andre Dubus III on Postmodern Writing
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation…
On Love and Judgement, Via John Waters
My policy is "unless you know the full story, don't judge", and you never know the full story. -- John Waters, quoted here. This reminds me of…
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