Wielding Literature for Truth and Trust
Perhaps the core difficulty in discovering truth exists in lieu of our inability to trust.
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Author: Mickey Osthimer
The Varying Feelings of Jesus’ Son
Perhaps, in connecting the song’s teachings of drug struggles from the ’60s with those of the book and films of the ’90s, both similarities and differences across these platforms can provide intake on why the opioid epidemic either comes in waves, or never truly leaves.
On Music History, Street Walking, and Energy Building
The surrounding parts of Greenwich Village, with its cafes and bookstores and instrument stores and doughnut shops and all things to and from those sorts, brings to one a brevity of air when they can connect who else has been there before.
On Scab-Picking and Other Such Transformations
At the heart of it, the simple matter of learning about the things you can’t control and struggling to control the ones you can come in just as many forms as those things themselves.
The Shifting Language of Violence
It is more or less the recognition of the less-than-subtle hint that the violence ensued upon each other cycles back onto the faulting, failing, incriminating treatment of our one true home.
Space Fiction vs. Space Discovery
Much of Earth is no longer habitable; still, the child reaches for the milk, the branch drinks from the root, and time goes on. You don’t remember when or where you heard it, but every so often you yearn for the reminder that the stars look very different today. And time goes on.
Seeking Amnesty in an Epidemic
Octavia Butler’s short story “Amnesty” is a tale in which an invasive species, called Communities, occupies desert areas on Earth and tests, uses, hires, and even “enfolds” (a sort of cocoon-like cuddle) humans for comfort and resources.
Can the Short Story Unify Us?—Finding Community in The Best American Short Stories 2016
We have made it to 2017 with little protest (to the passing of last year, that is) and a whole lot of wonder about what to think of the previous twelve months. With an array of emotion fluttering over the land like strong winds, the confusion and misunderstanding and, for many, fear and distaste, give…
America RePunked: A Vision of the Next Four Years in Art
But I begin by asking: Is the anti-establishment nature of the punk ethos going to make its second coming in our art over the next four years?