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Marrying Literature and Life
Joan Didion and New Journalism Good writing doesn’t construct, deconstruct, or reconstruct life, it simply explores it. Recently I’ve gotten more into creative nonfiction, and the transition has been a refreshing change of literary pace for me. One work I was long overdue on reading was Joan Didion’s The White Album (1979), an essay collection published in…
Poetry As Prayer
Poetry Recommendation: “These Hands, If Not Gods” by Natalie Diaz Retrieved from Academy of American Poets. Haven’t they moved like rivers— like Glory, like light— over the seven days of your body? And wasn’t that good? Them at your hips— isn’t this what God felt when he pressed together the first Beloved: Everything. Fever. Vapor. Atman. Pulsus….
Symbolism in Storytelling: Building Emotional Depth and Thematic Unity
Take a moment and think about the stories that have stayed with you long after you finished the last page—the ones that have burrowed into your mind, your heart, or your soul, continuing to occupy space. While I can’t guess the specific stories that are living rent-free in your mind, I’ll wager that they’re not…