From the monthly archives: December 2011
Every Thursday night I sit quietly on a folding chair with five Silence Addicts in room B-11 under the Episcopal Grace church on Broadway. The room’s walls and floors are covered with orange shag carpeting – amateur sound-proofing done years ago by the minister’s son, who apparently planned to record a Christian acoustic-rock [...]
Try, for a moment, to imagine a world without J.R.R. Tolkien. There would be no Frodo, no Shire, no Gandalf. But what else would disappear without this author? By my thinking, if Tolkien goes, so goes Prachett, Pullman, and…Rowling. Sure there were other fantasy authors during Tolkien’s time (the Inklings wouldn’t have been much [...]
Cody Black says that running away isn’t about highways and strangers you care about more than friends, that it’s about something else inside you that you love so much it hurts, hurts enough to haunt you the rest of your life. And I’ve told him that I was haunted only when I pleased [...]
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