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,...
by Robin Kirk | Sep 25, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
On September 24, over 120 Muslim scholars, academics and religious authorities released a open letter addressed to the “fighters and followers” of the so-called Islamic State. Among the signatories are Sheikh Shawqi Allam, the grand mufti of Egypt, and Sheikh Muhammad...
by Robin Kirk | Sep 21, 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.” “(As a troop carrier), I sat, as I had sat for most of my two-thousand-year existence in one...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 10, 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.” “A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 3, 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.” “(The genealogist lost in the archives was discovered) almost miraculously, after a week,...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 30, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
Of all of the images of the destruction being visited upon Gaza and Israel, why did the picture of a girl retrieving her books from the rubble stop me cold? The image was originally posted, as far as I can tell, by the Palestinian Information Center soon after...
