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- Feed Preview Briallen Hopper
Evidence that we exist.
jamiatt : > The only thing that is saving my life right now is the fact that I > somehow managed to bang out a first draft of a book this summer. I > did this by...
Get on Board the Blogtrain!
briallenhopper : > I’m grateful to Brook Wilensky-Lanford > , editor extraordinaire of the > soul-stirring religion magazine KtB , > for tagging me in her blog train > ...
In the Orchard
briallenhopper : > I come from a family that believes in regret, inertia, fatalism, and > resignation. Luckily these are not the only things it believes in— > we also...
Happy Birthday Aretha & Flannery
briallenhopper : > My friend Ash has gotten me into bodily resurrection lately via > Flannery O’Connor. Let this song > resurrect you.
My Frederick Douglass Juvenalia
(I was so happy to run into Frederick Douglass at the Women’s March!) Long ago I wrote my senior thesis on Frederick Douglass, and it is a mess. But here is my favorite part of it: three stori...
The Last of the Moores
“I often lament that I am the last of the Moores… . But then I remember the image of the giddy pre-teen-age girl, waiting out in front of a theater to ask for my autograph, and the page from ...
All My Christmas Writing in One Place
On being home for the holidays with my sisters, and the movie Sisters . (2016) On White Christmas and Black Lives Matter. (2014) On It’s a Wonderful Life and Occupy Wall Street– esp...
Lonesome Pine
I’m pining, pun intended, for an imaginary world in which I can teach at Yale and still see my sisters and Northwest forests whenever I miss them. No tsunamis yet please, no earthquakes, no vol...
Midsummer
briallenhopper : > “As I lay in bed watching the sun climb out of the wheat field > yesterday, I tried to remember all our Midsummer Eves, in their > proper order.�...
Breakfast Reading
briallenhopper : > Breakfast reading is a raison d'être. It has to tip the balance > between consciousness and unconsciousness, enough to make you not > regret your cho...
"Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery..."
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intelle...
Shirley You Can’t Be Serious
briallenhopper : > “The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford > to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do > anythin...
That Uncanny Feeling When Someone Else Writes the Story of Your Life
briallenhopper : > I WISH I HAD MORE SISTERS > > > > by Brenda Shaughnessy > > Keep reading > Missing my sisters.
lalevytexas: Happy Mother’s Day to George Saunders, whose...
lalevytexas : > HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO GEORGE SAUNDERS, whose stories nurture me; > expose me; make me vulnerable; give me unasked-for advice; dissolve > me into puddles...
Youtube Academic Survival Guide
briallenhopper : > Useful links I send my students: > > For when you need a pep talk > > > FOR WHEN YOU NEED PERSPECTIVE ON GRADES AND ACADEMIC STUFF > >�...
Desk Set
briallenhopper : >
Religious But Not Spiritual Sermon (Remix)
I preached this sermon at the University Church in Yale today. It’s a remix of a sermon I preached five years ago. I kept the long quote from my favorite MLK sermon, but added a lot more aching...
Baldwin, Robinson, Resurrection
briallenhopper : > “Sonny’s fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that > life contained so many others. And Sonny went all the way back, he > really ...
Acts of Faith
roxanegay : > I spoke at a Catholic university today and there was a bit of a > kerfuffle so I wrote this piece in the car this afternoon and then I > was on stag...
Difficult Friendship
I wrote about single women and friendship for New York Magazine’s The Cut .