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Blind Spots - The 2018 Puterbaugh Keynote
After watching the dance adaptation of her story “Sand” at the 2018 Puterbaugh Festival, Erpenbeck delivered the following keynote, in which she invited the hundreds of attendees in the audience to reckon with their own blind spots—we must “step back in order to see,” she writes, “the entire historical tapestry extending far beyond [our] own lifetimes.”
10+ min |
July - August 2018
World Literature Today
Yu Xiuhua - A Life Lived In Poetry
She is a subsistence farmer with a ninth-grade education and a disabled person with speech and writing challenges, yet she has been the most talked-about and best-selling poet in China. Her name is Yu Xiuhua, and her life is a triumph of poetry.
10 min |
July - August 2018
World Literature Today
Lin Shu, Author Of The Quixote
China is so peculiarly revealing in its essence that few authors can approach it without unveiling their innermost fantasies. He who speaks of China speaks of himself.– Simon Leys
4 min |
July - August 2018
World Literature Today
De Beauvoir And Sartre On The Kibbutz
While visiting a kibbutz to give a lecture, and after dining on both hot desert-root vegetable soup and sushi, the speaker becomes the listener when someone in the audience completes an anecdote about Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
9 min |
July - August 2018
World Literature Today
Slaying New Black Notions - Childish Gambino's 'This Is America'
Poet Ladan Osman considers how Childish Gambino obliterates rooted acts of black optimism and expression, leading us to understand the artist’s persona as a site upon which historical and aesthetic lineages are free to interact and contradict each other.
4 min |
July - August 2018
World Literature Today
Writing as Judgment or Scream
A Conversation with Ash Erdogan.
10+ min |
November – December 2017
World Literature Today
#Moving
This story begins with three @ handles and ends with two. With a single hashtag, repeated insistently like a mantra: #moving. A flickering light on the computer screen in the dark. And a song.
10 min |
November – December 2017
World Literature Today
Starving for Order
A Conversation with Ted Kooser.
9 min |