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Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (216+ words) Literary Hub Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who's Always Had a in Camera Hand This line between subject/collaborator is a tricky one to satisfy. In the initial article, when Vuong recounted showing images of the…...
When the Fountain Runs Dry: On Aging, Immortality and the Illusion of Everlasting Youth
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1060+ words) It's against this backdrop that I first read Tuck Everlasting which follows a 10 year old girl named Winnie who stumbles upon a magical spring of eternal life and is kidnapped by the immortal family who guards it because they don't…...
Terry Tempest Williams on the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (860+ words) Tell me what supernatural life / Is painted on your wings, the poet Homero Aridjis writes of monarch butterflies. He knows the migrations, the flaming butterflies, from his childhood when they return each year to the pine and oyamel forests near…...
Photographic Reflections on Gendered Aging, Idealized Beauty, and Maternal Duty
3+ mon, 17+ hour ago (276+ words) With TIME TO KILL, I look at gendered aging, unpacking the ideals of beauty, caretaking, and maternal and domestic duty imposed on women over the course of their lives. These images are interwoven with letters to an ambiguous, ageless, and…...