What to Read When You Want to Think about Survival
Kelly J. Baker shares a reading list to celebrate FINAL GIRL.
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...moreFor Tin House’s blog, Jacob Rubin deconstructs a single sentence from Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering.
...moreFor the New York Times, Phillip Lopate reviews Charles D’Ambrosio’s new essay collection, Loitering, and explains why he thinks that D’Ambrosio, in essays, has “found the perfect medium.”
...moreJohn Proctor (the Hunger Mountain editor, not the historical figure/Crucible character hanged for witchcraft in 17th-century Salem) has a blog post up about Steven Church’s Rumpus essay “On Loitering.” “…it sometimes gives me a great sense of reclamation,” he says of loitering in urban spaces, “of the triumph of humanity and self-determination over the authoritarian voices […]
...moreIn Charles Moore’s iconic black-and-white photograph, Coretta looks on stoically, lips parted, hands clasped in front as her husband, Martin Luther King, has his right arm bent behind his back by a police officer in a tall hat.
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