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Little Acquiescences by Steven Faulkner
View Student protests. They’re here again. Demonstrations, sit-ins, occupations of administrative buildings, tent encampments, placards, shouting, cursing, destruction of university facilities. Some of us are old enough to remember the late 1960s and early 1970s. I finished high school in a quiet Midwestern town that was home to a state agricultural college that had blossomed into a quiet university: Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
From the Savior’s ‘Image,’ the Stones Cry Out
BOOK PICK: Steven Faulkner’s novel moves us beyond mere mosaic to the very Savior the stones invoke. Joshua Hren Books July 31, 2021 THE IMAGE A Novel in Pieces By Steven Faulkner Beaufort Books, 2021 175 pages, $17.75 To order: beaufortbooks.com/the-image/ Strange how, even in an era oversaturated with images, a single well-made one can still speak the transcendent. More: A mere picture, inanimate as ever, can seem to solicit something from us.
South Africa: Cape Town and Joburg Blazes Hide Shocking Truth About SA's Fire Services
The disturbing footage of the fires in Cape Town and Johannesburg have once again provided a smokescreen for the appalling state of our fire services, especially in the metros. A fire in a hospital is obviously an extremely serious matter. Patients and staff of Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital had to be relocated, some of them at great risk to their health.
MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED: Cape Town and Joburg blazes hide shocking truth about SA’s fire services Original
A fire rages over Philip Kgosana Drive towards Rhodes Memorial and UCT on 18 April 2021. (Photo by Ziyaad Douglas/Gallo Images) The disturbing footage of the fires in Cape Town and Johannesburg have once again provided a smokescreen for the appalling state of our fire services, especially in the metros. A fire in a hospital is obviously an extremely serious matter. Patients and staff of Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital had to be relocated, some of them at great risk to their health.
The Century of the Cyclops by Steven Faulkner
Feature On the Loss of Poetry as Necessary Knowledge by Steven Faulkner Someone recently won a $75,000 poetry prize. I don’t recall the poet’s name. The sponsors of the prize thought that big bucks would help revive interest in poetry. The winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for $25,000, Charles Wright, admitted that this country’s interest in poetry is in something of a free fall, but he hoped these large prizes would arrest that fall. I doubt it will help. Who reads modern poetry?
Winter Olympics: How Athletes Adapt to Competing in the Bitter Cold
In the days before the Winter Olympics began, athletes reported that the weather in PyeongChang, South Korea was so cold that some ski equipment had warped. There are suggestions the games could be some of the coldest on record. The Winter Olympics represent the pinnacle of four years of intensive training and competition for the world’s best winter sports athletes.
BITTERROOT by Steven Faulkner
That land is definitively Lewis and Clark territory, and that duo figures prominently, though mostly in the mountainous region of the title, a place that Faulkner (Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts, 2007)—a Kansas flatlander by way of Virginia—knows well.
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