career
Shaping Identity: Not Suited to this World
by Liz Backstrom “To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words:
October 7, 2019
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R&S writing
#metoo
What We Read
by Ann Marie Bausch When news of sexual assault allegations against author Junot Díaz broke in the spring of 2018, my first reaction was grief:
January 16, 2019
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Becoming a Novelist
Artist Series: On Becoming Something, Possibly a Novelist
In John Gardner’s Becoming a Novelist, the author names two kinds of writers. One is fascinated by their own inner world, crafting characters as they appear before them. I think of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway — the complex inner-life of a woman receiving the world like she’s casting a net into the sea and is more interested in how the net does its snaring work than in what she hauls in.
July 18, 2018
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animal sanctuaries
Artist Series: When Pigs Fly
In photos of cows and pigs, I began to see sentient souls looking back at me. I would lose my breath at the beauty I had never known to look for in “livestock.” I felt myself peering into the eyes of a goat and searching for a language other than English in which to communicate, a language that has nothing to do with words.
July 5, 2018
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Art and Faith
Meet Rock & Sling’s New Web Editor
Like books, blog posts plunge me into a perspective different than my own, but in a way that is immediate, a compact chunk of text to absorb while taking the bus to work, multitasking during a Netflix binge, or sitting on a park bench during my lunch break. The great posts divert me from my comfort zone, helping me see myself, my community, my life, in new ways, sending me back into my day with a subtle shift in perspective, a gentle (or not so gentle) nudge to keep chewing on this new idea.
August 17, 2017
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