by Caroline Picard | Sep 23, 2013 | Blog
What follows is an essay by John Preus, soon to be released in the next issue of Proximity : ON LOVE AND LABOR-THOUGHTS THAT ACCOMPANIED THE MAKING OF A TABLE By John Preus I recently joined a Jungian men’s group…(pause for my academic colleagues to peel off). On...
by Caroline Picard | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
The following essay by Dylan Trigg was published by The White Review. THE GHOSTS OF PLACE Dylan Trigg ’So I turned around for an instant to look at what my field of vision onto the sea had not offered up: the heavy grey mass where traces of planks lined up along the...
by Shane McAdams | Apr 8, 2013 | Blog
So this is it; the last entry of Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide. It’s appropriate that I’m writing it on a plane from New York to Milwaukee – that’s where I wrote my first one and most of the ones in-between. I boarded bent on finishing before...
by Caroline Picard | Apr 4, 2012 | Blog
“The fascination with monsters — that is, with human and animal oddities and hybrids — is as old as human civilization. Indeed, a history of the monstrous would constitute a veritable history of culture and civilization, for the monstrous marks the boundary...
by Caroline Picard | Mar 7, 2012 | Blog
There was a family in our neighborhood growing up and they always had the very same standard, gray poodle. It was always called Cooper and in every one of the family’s Christmas cards, Cooper was present, represented at a variety of ages. You see because when...