July 2013 – Confluence

Unlikely Leaders

by Brian WilliamsPosted on July 15, 2013May 3, 2020Arts WorkshopAudio

What are the qualities that leaders share? And how do people become leaders in the first place? An audio investigation.

Uncivilizing

by Horatia HopperPosted on July 5, 2013May 3, 2020CriticismFirst-Year Writing SeminarUncategorized

Civilization as a disease. A call to nature.

A Fractured Family Fairy Tale

by Otter LeePosted on July 5, 2013May 3, 2020Creative Non-FictionGallatin Review

"My mother always dressed me in red, so I would stand out in a crowd, so that she would never lose me." A family in four acts.

Detail from Georgia O'Keeffe's "Red Hills and Bones," 1941.

Destiny, Manifest

by Michael HaldemanPosted on July 3, 2013May 3, 2020CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminar

“This is the nature of war,” proclaims Judge Holden, “whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification.” A study of violence in the American West.