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To Write Myself Into Existence
Published on 2010-12-16 00:07:35
I have decided to write something really terrible and share it with the world so I can really give up on writing once and for all. Call it self-flagellation. Or a last-ditch effort for uplift, or pity. Call it narcissism. Either way, I needed to writ > read more
Spawning Writing Advice
Published on 2010-10-01 19:37:15
This song demonstrates what voice and unity mean in a well-conceived story. I don’t believe in spawning writing advice through blog posts. I heard somewhere–I think it was an Amherst writer, maybe Harlan Cohen or Scott Turow, that the death k > read more
School Update
Published on 2010-09-24 01:44:22
I apologize for not updating the blog as regularly as I did during the summer. But I’m back in school. And school work trumps blogging. At least for now, it does. In any case, I am happy to report that I really really love my creative writing c > read more
Narrative Power: Decentering the Single Story
Published on 2010-08-27 14:50:58
Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” reaffirms my faith in narrative as one of the best tools to combat cultural hegemony (orientalism) in all its various manifestations. It also adds fresh insight and nuance to Alarc > read more
On Privileged Solipsism
Published on 2010-08-25 13:37:16
Reading over some of my last posts I have discovered that I have unduly focused and reflected on Amherst under a solipsistic, hedonistic pretense. Though I never intended to mark this blog as space for existential crisis drama, the last posts indicat > read more
Why I Blog?
Published on 2010-08-19 10:42:11
The day I started blogging I felt both apprehensive and excited as I suppose people feel when they embark on a new adventure without knowing what exactly awaits them. So I ventured forth into the blogosphere with feelings and ideas hoping some solita > read more
Laundromat Thoughts: Race and Privilege Pt.2
Published on 2010-08-19 06:36:16
Cornel West’s interview at Fault Lines engages the question I posed at the end of Laudromat Thoughts: Race and Privilege: Maybe the anxiety about returning to Amherst has more to do with an ambivalence towards the privileged classes there and a > read more
The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Published on 2010-08-18 08:52:48
Note : Summer dwindles but my laziness doesn’t budge. Though I spent the better part of July writing and reading, I have now stopped. And to make things worse, I recently signed up for a two-week Netflix free trial promotion and have squandered my > read more
Political Memory
Published on 2010-08-12 23:49:28
Late Saturday night, I ride the “4” train from Fordham Road to Grand Central Station. People drift off to sleep; their heads lean against tired shriveled shoulders. The train’s sliding doors open and close. More people enter the train and look > read more
Laundromat Thoughts: Race and Privilege
Published on 2010-08-10 10:27:31
I am writing this post sitting in the back of a Laundromat on Roosevelt Avenue. Trains barrel down the elevated train tracks. An old short woman collects beer cans and drops them on a Supermarket cart. It’s 3:20 a.m. or so the clock on my Mac indic > read more