Mar 11
(Trigger and/or blasphemy warning: I talk about the Bible in this post.) When I read the Grimm’s tales, I realized, “Huh. This is part of the seeds for the Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth trope.” In the tales, if there is a pretty daughter and an ugly (usually step-) daughter, then the pretty …
Feb 17
Listening and transcribing these tapes is a trip, I tell you what. For one thing, one of the wonderful people whom I interviewed is now dead of cancer, which is a sobering thought. For another, listening to myself at age twenty is fascinating. Six years ago, the summer I got the grant to do the …