Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection
Something from Hemingway
By Sarah Lyman An excerpt from an interview with the writer Ernest Hemingway: Interviewer: “Finally, a fundamental question: as a creative writer, what do you think is the function of your art? Why a representation of fact, rather than fact itself?” Hemingway: “Why be puzzled by that? From things that […]
January 17, 2013 | Read Article
Just Friends
By Stephanie Salts I have a habit of falling in love. With people. Then with places. Sometimes things. Is dance a thing? Is dance a place? OR is dance a person? Maybe dance is all these things. I have found it in all three. I find it hard to introduce […]
January 10, 2013 | Read Article
A Place to Put Our Feelings
By Emmaly Wiederholt Happy New Year! It’s new, at least according to our calendar. The world didn’t end on December 21st, though I doubt anyone really believed it would end. But with all this rumination on endings and beginnings, I’d like to pose a question: is anything different? Last month […]
January 3, 2013 | Read Article
Passing Through Time: Reflections on The End of the World and Monique Jenkinson’s “Instrument”
By Katie Gaydos The Mayan calendar predicts that the world is set to end on Dec 21st. While I don’t actually believe that the world as we know it will suddenly evaporate into thin air anytime soon, I do think that the completion of the Mayan long count calendar (and […]
December 20, 2012 | Read Article
Forgetting and Remembering
By Julia Cost I must give some context about my state of mind recently, in order to understand this essay. I have been living within a thick questioning season, wondering intensely about what is worth watching… what is worth studying (this is not a new phase for me, but it has […]
December 13, 2012 | Read Article
