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The Wealth-Fantasy Lies About the Reality of Justice
Popular movies take pleasure in portraying wealthy characters. The movie The Big Year, which I viewed with my wife last night, reminded me of this. Jack Black plays a 36-year-old divorced bird watcher...
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The function of literature is communication between things that are different...
On September 18th, 1985, an Italian writer named Italo Calvino was preparing to fly to Massachusetts to deliver a series of lectures at Harvard University. He’d worked obsessively on the lectures and...
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The next time you find yourself resisting time spent with your creative...
From “The Artist Begins Again and Again” by Christine Valters Painter: There will be days when we don’t feel like coming to blank page or canvas or the meditation cushion. There will be days when life...
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Operating in the Zone a Drill Called Perfection; a Review of Jonah Lehrer’s...
This is a guest post by Kristen Dalton. She’s a Journalist for Greater Media Newspapers covering the Greater Red Bank Area in New Jersey. She won the 2011 Williams Prize for Poetry and graduated from...
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What if we writers are able to tell stories of hurt and joy only because...
The truth writers wrestle with isn’t an attempt to fix the broken as much as it’s an attempt to understand our suffering. Tony Woodlief explores this further from the Good Letters Blog: We writers...
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Creativity Series: “Tiny Glory” by Kolby Kerr
When we read the Bible—if we read it well—we are never far from paradox. We are introduced to one in the opening act, just as God has set all the characters on the scene. We are informed that Adam and...
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Creativity Series: “What it is to be Us” by Kyle Burton
From the moment we acquire as toddlers the capacity to interact with our world, the best way to understand it is to imagine. As children we play with toys—blocks, dolls, action figures—or, if without...
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Creativity Series: “Tossing Ferdinand Magellan” by Tyler McCabe
Most writers I know have a pet metaphor for this station, the ultimately strange role of writer, and I suppose I do, too, though lately I have grown suspicious of it—or rather, him. I am considering...
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Creativity Series: “I Stand at the Untitled Piece” by Addie Zierman
The show at the Walker Art Center is called This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, and I am struck. It’s the work of the first generation of artists to grow up with televisions at...
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Creativity Series: “God, the Artist, and the World” by Judith Hougen
When I was sixteen, my father retired from the military, initiating the last move of my childhood to a small town in Wisconsin. I was once again the new kid, the outsider seeking a space, a community,...
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