July 2011
16 posts
“The revolution, as represented in the early 1890s, had thus created the basis of Cuban nationhood. It was a site, where in the words of Gomez, ‘blacks and whites became brothers’ and where, according to Marti, ‘facing death, barefoot and all, blacks and white became equal: they embraced and have not separated since.’ Even in death, the embrace continued, ‘as...
June 2011
27 posts
“My dad always said that he lived out of the store, enough to live on. The money he made he made in the woods.” Jack Grist “Memories of the American Chestnut” Foxfire 6
In 1951, when I sold my first story, I had no idea that such fundamental issues could be pursued in the science fiction field. I began to pursue them unconsciously. My first story had to do with a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container. Every day, members of the family...
“I’m not alone in having been born backward into an incoherent realm of texts, products, and images, the commercial and cultural environment with which we’ve both supplemented and blotted out our natural world. I can no more claim it as “mine” than the sidewalks and forests of the world, yet I do dwell in it, and for me to stand a chance as either artist or citizen, I’d...
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“You hear these stories about how our people came down from Alaska, through the Bering Strait. But what we believe is that we came up from the ground.”
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
5 posts
