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Tag: fiction

  • James Baldwin and Why We Should Care

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    Rodney Nelsestuen
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    While today is 9/11 and the world is once again remembering a great evil that took place and the deaths of almost 3,000 people at the hands of terrorists, I am focused on a different aspect of ‘the tragic’ as I have recently read James Baldwin. During this past summer I read both “The Fire…

  • Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

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    Rodney Nelsestuen
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    German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s books are slathered with praise and for good reason. She has an impressive body of work and her most recent book won the Booker Prize for fiction. The title, Kairos, means different things but essentially ‘timely’ or ‘at the right time’ or maybe I’ll use my favorite term where Kairos =…