Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Greater empathy or immunity from it?

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A friend of mine was telling me the other day that over a weekend, he and his daughter were sitting on the couch when the movie Dead Poets S...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Equality means everyone is free to have a dull life: "Omakase" by Weike Wang

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This story frustrated me. It's about a woman who talks herself into being taken advantage of, talked down to, and to playing second fidd...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Yes, it's normal for a literary journal to ghost on you after they accept your work

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Long ago, this used to be a blog about writing fiction and the travails thereof. It's been more of a blog dedicated to analyzing and rev...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Larry Bird teaches us all a valuable life lesson: "They Told Us Not to Say This" by Jenn Alandy Trahan

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We like to thinks of sports as a great equalizer, a realm in which the limits of race and class that exist in the rest of society don't ...
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

So open, I need a wall: "Wrong Object" by Mona Simpson

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At the beginning of reading "Wrong Object" by Mona Simpson, I had the same reaction to the story that the therapist-narrator does ...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

When the political clearly trumps the personal: "Our Day of Grace" by Jim Shepard

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About six weeks ago, I went to Antietam National Battlefield for the observation of the 157th anniversary of the terrible battle there. I...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Our faith in this narrative: "Natural Disasters" by Alexis Schaitkin

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One of the themes I keep coming back to on this blog is to ask the question of whether literature is good for us. It's not just an impor...
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