Naked in Front of Strangers #1
Back home after a nomad summer to the tune of Hells Angels on Main Street as the spotlights of helicopters probe alleys outside,
The teapot screams at nine p.m. with two hours of drawing left ahead as I sit wide-eyed amidst an illustration ink coma,
At 39, my impending old age is rendering me more French romantic then punk rock…
By Kimberly Cooper Nichols.
Plotting
The Believer Logger interview Sergio de la Pava: Human beings are interested in crime and punishment. And somewhere along the way, it seems to me that plot became a dirty word as it relates to American fiction. If you had a vigorous plot, then you were a meathead, purely an entertainer, not a serious writer. […]
mostly elephant, ergo…
I would say that properly understood, science is adding to the potential of living the good life because it helps us better see the kind of animals we are. We are animals with powerful feelings and subconscious motivations, but we are also reflective animals who talk in normative terms and care about doing things for good reasons. Of course we are “just animals”, but this doesn’t mean that we are just a bundle of uncontrolled motivations. We are more than that, because of our complicated brains, though nothing that we are is something supernatural. I don’t know how radical a change this is. I don’t find it that radical, but I wasn’t raised to believe that we have non-natural souls. I do find it requires a change of self-image to realise that I’m not in control of what I do as much as I thought I was, but I don’t find this to be a fundamental kind of change. It’s a matter of degree.
Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Valerie Tiberius.