by Robin Kirk | Dec 16, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was delving into the torture report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week when my daughter texted [since I originally posted this entry, new chair Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) has withdrawn the report from the site in a misguided effort to suppress...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 14, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” It was as though different vintages of sadness were stored in different parts of his mind, stacked...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 9, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was beginning to delve into the report on torture released by the Senate Intelligence Committee when my daughter texted. A senior at college, she was following the New York Times twitter feed highlighting the executive summary as reporters raced to the end....
by Robin Kirk | Nov 23, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I take part in David Abrams’ #Sundaysentence, sharing a well-crafted sentence I’ve read this week, without introduction or explanation. And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 19, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
Like many, I was shocked to hear that Barilla CEO Guido Barilla had told an Italian radio host that the family company “would never do [a commercial] with a homosexual couple, not for lack of respect, but because we don’t agree with them.” Barilla, based...
by Robin Kirk | Oct 21, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I’ve been tagged by Jenn (Bishop) Barnes in the 777 Challenge. Writers challenge writers to post the first full seven lines of the seventh page of his or her work in progress, starting seven lines down. My work-in-progress is the second book in a speculative fantasy,...
