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Essays to read, to seek, to learn

The Courage to Create

  • Leilani Squire
  • June 11, 2018
In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for…
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  • 4 min

How Storytelling Can Guide Us: On Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child”

  • Leilani Squire
  • January 4, 2018
What impresses me most about the storytelling and the writing of God Help the Child is how carefully Ms. Morrison chooses when to reveal what needs to be revealed so we can begin to understand the inner motivation of the characters’ journeys.
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  • 10 min

Liu Xiaobo: Tyranny, Freedom of Conscience, and the Incompleteness of the Individual

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • September 20, 2017
After Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, I followed the news about him—this dissident public intellectual who had given the Chinese government a major headache. Having read many books about nonviolent thought and action, I sensed that Liu Xiaobo’s life and writing could deepen my understanding further: He believed that words followed by action could change the direction of a country.

Florence Osmund – Author Study

  • Piper Templeton
  • June 23, 2017
Florence Osmund writes layered novels centered on characters trying to find home in a literal and figurative sense. The novels explore how integral family is to each character and how…
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  • 3 min

When you find the book to inspire you

  • Leilani Squire
  • February 22, 2017
This memoir shines a light on what’s possible, and hidden inside her story is a map showing a way to accomplish one’s dream—even the most unlikely and impossible dream.
George Orwell
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  • 4 min

1984 – Has Orwell’s World Arrived?

  • Leilani Squire
  • February 14, 2017
Recently 1984 by George Orwell popped into my mind, perhaps because I needed to understand what I was witnessing in the first months of 2017, or at least make an attempt to understand.
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  • 6 min

Regret and relationship in the fiction of Maria Savva

  • Piper Templeton
  • December 5, 2016
Maria Savva's fiction expertly weaves moral ambiguities, deep-seated memories, and modern challenges into contemporary storytelling.

Memories from my bookshelf

  • Ronne Troup
  • November 4, 2016
The books on a bookshelf can hold memories of a lived life -- many dreams, the places visited, a childhood, and adulthood.

Reading is Personal

  • Glenn Schiffman
  • September 28, 2016
Author Glenn Schiffman on reading as a writer. As he notes, "Fiction is not just a simulator of a social experience; it is a social experience."
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  • 3 min

Readers and Writers: A Dance of Reciprocity

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • September 20, 2016
Reading is like exercise. You have to practice it. Call it the sit-down practice of exercising your mental and emotional acuity.

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