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David Foster Wallace Kills My Darlings
Friday May 24, 2013
To be an artist is to be constantly dissatisfied. Many acclaimed artists have said this, and though not acclaimed, I identify. I have habit of sitting on projects for too long, afraid to let go until they’re absolutely perfect, a habit that usually doesn’t lead to perfection but preciousness, an inability to let go....
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Why We Can’t Look Away
Thursday May 23, 2013
The morning I learned about the women in Cleveland, I knew from a single headline that there was more to be said, and horrified by, than I wanted to know: Cleveland Women Rescued From Ten Years’ Imprisonment in Captor’s Home. As the news poured in, the photos of balloons flapping from Amanda Berry’s porch and family members doubled over in relief, the weight in my stomach got heavier....
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Before the Fall of Baseball
Wednesday May 22, 2013
As a child, school did not rank high on my priority list, which meant my report cards led my parents to believe that, intellectually, I was probably about as dense as a baseball. While watching a Kansas City Royals game on TV with my father one day, however, I made the mistake of reciting the batting averages of a few players from memory. After verifying the statistics using the career information on my baseball cards, my parents realized....
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Controlling the Shot
Tuesday May 21, 2013
We set sail for Robben Island prison at noon amid five-foot swells. The Atlantic was dark and agitated like a clubbed fish, and my camera pitched around my neck....
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Why We Make Art
Monday May 20, 2013
“Who you actually are is far bigger than the narrative you construct about who you are,” writes Jon Kabat-Zinn in Mindfulness for Beginners. At this moment—end of semester, grades in, annual faculty record due, next year’s budget due, meetings to schedule....
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Artist of the Month
Stephen Cushman
Lisa Russ Spaar observed in a recent review in Image that the speakers in Stephen Cushman’s poems seem to do a lot of walking—beside creeks and oceans, up and down mountains....
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