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Creativity is the Human Condition

Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.
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Tell Me a Fractal
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Tell Me a Fractal

Think of a snowflake forming around a molecule of water clinging to a tiny particle of something, how it blossoms and diverges as other molecules join in, seeking their hexagonal destiny, becoming a perfect thing of beauty. Then think of it melting, its sharp edges blurring, its interstices blotting out until it plops to earth. That’s a story, right there, in full surround. Matter, space and time at play.
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The End of the Beginning

Building the Structural Foundation When I write, I have a plot sketched out in my mind and sometimes laying out the groundwork can be laborious and even boring. It’s essential,…
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Humility

Kentanji Brown Jackson’s nomination hearings are over, but much like the merchant priests of old, Ms. Jackson’s resonance remains.
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The Longform Book Review

The longform book reviews on bookscover2cover are narrative, descriptive and analytical. Through a close reading of the text, the reviewer identifies themes and motifs embedded in the text and examines contextual information to verify facts. To develop a coherent argument in favor of the book, the reviewer offers readers insight, not mere judgement.
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Diane Chamberlain, an Author Study

Diane Chamberlain writes compelling fiction that features young female protagonists striving to prevail in a world that proves to be hostile towards them for reasons that are revealed as the stories progress. Her novels captivate the reader as secrets from the past and mysteries of the heart gradually come to light.
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Minka Kent, an Author Study

Piper Templeton explores the books of Minka Kent, a writer of “psychological suspense novels that draw the reader in from the word ‘go.’” The three books include The Memory Watcher, The Perfect Roommate, and The Thinnest Air.
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The Courage to Create

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

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

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.
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To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing. 6 1
Stephen Newton shares his path from the world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films" subjects. 3 0
"In my childhood, it wasn’t unusual for the crashed remains of fighter planes to be unearthed by farm activity. The fascination of that endurance of past events in the landscape informs my work, I think, in part because I enjoy the notion of the reversal that Garner so brilliantly demonstrated. People think they shape the land. But the land shapes them. Though I’m sure that anyone from an indigenous community reading that would think it was no great insight." - Mark Wagstaff 2 0
'Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.' 8 0
"I write about equity and social justice, just maybe because I want to love this world and I want it—I want us, the people of the world, to treat each other better, or at least move closer to trying. I write about equity and social justice because I spent forty-plus years trying to address it through our educational system, and I don't want to waste the insight I've gained. Loving the world means seeing it as it is and as it might be and doing what I can—which is, now, to write." 3 0
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement speech @fandmcollege, May 2022. 3 0

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