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Jun

30

2017

Dave Boling

ILLUMINATING FORGOTTEN HISTORY WITH THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF FICTION

DAVE BOLING FOLLOWS A THREAD OF FAMILY HISTORY TO TELL UNTOLD STORIES by Dave Boling, from LitHub June 23, 2017: It’s a typical conversation-starter for authors: “What are you writing about these days?” My answering, “the Anglo-Boer War,” triggered a typical response. The interrogators would tilt their head and nod, buying time to find a …

Apr

18

2017

Lidia Yuknavitch by Andrew Kovalev

I Will Always Inhabit the Water:
On Living a Swimmer’s Life

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar– Until the morning sun– When One–turned smiling to the land– Oh God! the Other One! The stray ships–passing– Spied a face– Upon the waters borne– With eyes in death–still begging raised– And hands–beseeching–thrown! –Emily Dickinson, (1861)  201 Lately I’ve been haunted by Dickinson’s poem about the two swimmers wrestling …