While all this is magical, it’s really just a sideshow to the main attraction: For 10 straight weeks, I have all the free time in the world to write, write, write.
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Civil Rights Moonwalk: Michael Jackson, Armond White, and Democracy
A focus on the human person allows White to cut right to the heart of cultural issues without getting lost or tossed around in the media firestorms that accompany cultural events.
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Time, Death, & Video Games: Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life
If you’re going to talk about such things as parallel universes, multiple lives, determinism and free will is not the video game a reputable analog?
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How Beauty (No Stronger Than a Flower) Shall Hold a Plea
These poems thread and rethread the nature of identity—in theology and philosophy, called the problem of haecceity.
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“A javelin of lavender…asserts a dozen verities”: Donnelly’s Cloud Corporation
Amid labyrinthine syntax, Timothy Donnelly is battling a kind of Minotaur: half-self, half-metaphysical conundrum; Donnelly’s sword is his mind.