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Calling Things Truly

I’m not sure any writer stimulates me like Rebecca Solnit. Her dead-aim truth telling and her exquisite control of language serves up so many reminders and inspirations. In “Silence Is Broken,” an early essay in The Mother of All Questions, Solnit writes: The task of calling things by their
Adam M. Sowards 28 Jan 2018

On Creativity and History, or Imagining an Unimaginable Future

In 1978, in a fit of optimism that civil rights had arrived and would never retreat, the southern writer Walker Percy, told a Georgia audience, Like most great historical changes, the change happens before our inkling of it and before its consequences begin to dawn on us. His shortsightedness on
Adam M. Sowards 07 Jan 2018

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