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“Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.”

C.E. Morgan

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When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

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I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere.…

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The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we…

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“some will say that death”

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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure…

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I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because…

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I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to…

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Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a…

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Love is not a feeling, but an action.

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“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I’m not interested in books that…

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I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on…

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“A soul loves most what is lost.”

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