The Land Between Two Rivers
Mar 2, 2018 Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity?
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Warning on the Dangers of Capitalism (Video)
Jan 24, 2018 "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings," the science fiction writer said in a 2014 speech.
Chris Hedges: Writing as Resistance (Video)
Nov 28, 2017 The Truthdig columnist delves into his own journey as an author and educator during a recent speech.
Author Rebecca Carroll on Identity and the ‘Monolith of Blackness’ (Audio and Transcript)
Jun 30, 2017 In this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and Carroll discuss the climate for black writers.
Writing as Resistance
Jul 18, 2016 Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance.
600 U.S. Writers Sign Open Letter Denouncing Donald Trump
May 27, 2016 Noting that they are “aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name of power,” hundreds of writers expressed their opposition to a possible Trump presidency.
The Instant Gratification Culture Is Killing Fine Writers
Mar 5, 2015 A sometimes acrid essay by an author and former creative writing professor delivers some tough love to people hoping to become published writers.
The Empty Room
Jun 6, 2014 Lauren B. Davis' novel dissects the patterns of fear, denial, lies and justification that propel an alcoholic further into an addiction that destroys everything she has and is.
Gabriel García Márquez
Apr 18, 2014
Free Homes for Writers in Detroit? (Video)
Dec 26, 2013 Directors of the nonprofit Write A House are bent on fixing up some portion of the Michigan city's thousands and thousands of vacant and blighted homes and handing them over to writers for virtually nothing, forever.
