some think he’s Jesus some think he’s a drunk or just another homeless person living on the street but he’s more than that people come to him for advice they bring him black coffee from the donut shop when they can afford it a cigarette or piece of candy when they can't the rich give … Continue reading NPR’s Books We Love: The King of New York – Georgiann Carlson
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Daily Creativity Prompt: The King of New York
Every December, I take a deep dive into National Public Radio's Books We Love list. Books are endlessly fascinating to me and NPR's recommendations guide my holiday shopping as well as my To Be Read/ Listened To list for the upcoming year. I hope that these prompts inspire you creatively and encourage you to add at least … Continue reading Daily Creativity Prompt: The King of New York
NPR’s Books We Love: The Last Devil To Die – Lynn White
I have known so many devils, Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, Pinochet and now Netanyahu. And then there are those with histories or geographies beyond me. It seems there is no end to them that one begets the other in a prodigious male line straight from Satan up to Earth, there to make a new Hell, there … Continue reading NPR’s Books We Love: The Last Devil To Die – Lynn White
Daily Creativity Prompt: American Whitelash
Every December, I take a deep dive into National Public Radio's Books We Love list. Books are endlessly fascinating to me and NPR's recommendations guide my holiday shopping as well as my To Be Read/ Listened To list for the upcoming year. I hope that these prompts inspire you creatively and encourage you to add at least … Continue reading Daily Creativity Prompt: American Whitelash
NPR’s Books We Love: He Who Drowned The World – Lynn White
I used to see him lying therestretched out atop the Moelwynin his favourite positionhead on Mawrfeet on Bachwater pouring from fingers and toesflooding the fields belowon its way to the sea.Then one day I saw him leapon to the topof Nyth y Gigfranright behind my house.I watched him as he sat therehis face turned awayhis … Continue reading NPR’s Books We Love: He Who Drowned The World – Lynn White
NPR’s Books We Love: Infinite Improbability – Lynn White
It was the Infinite Probability Drive that enabled the discovery. And once discovered it could not be undiscovered. Nothing can be. Now, in the future, another lucky accident is enabling another discovery, a means of calculating the probability of everything. It is something, if not everything, that we need to know. Soon we shall probably, … Continue reading NPR’s Books We Love: Infinite Improbability – Lynn White