Tag: Literature
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Art v Artist, or the politics of throwing the baby out with the bathwater
I have a note in my phone titled “icebreakers” that contains a list of fun, quirky get-to-know-you questions I’ve collected over the years that I find far more interesting than “how many siblings do you have?” and “what’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?” Among these questions are: What’s your most useless talent?What’s your least…
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Doomsday prophet looks good on me.
After running a lit mag for two years and reading hundreds and hundreds of submissions, I’ve realized that there’s one thing I value in writing above everything else: a unique voice. A voice that doesn’t sound like all the other voices out there, using the same dead metaphors and basic sentence structures and cookie cutter…
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To the stars on the wings of a pig
I named this loose collection of newsletters “Earthbound but Aspiring” mostly because I couldn’t figure out how to not give it a name and still get the site to display correctly, and a little bit because Steinbeck’s pigasus was the first sticker I saw on my coffee table that lent itself to a catchy title.…
Earthbound, But Aspiring 