“Children are Better at Telling the Truth”: An Interview with April Gibson

"Children are Better at Telling the Truth": An Interview with April Gibson

[ad_1] I first took notice of April Gibson when she stirred up her students by assigning James Baldwin and Jimmy Santiago Baca in entry-level courses. She pushed them to think critically, insisting they could deliver. And they did. I couldn’t have known then that she was also carrying around a universe in her pocket, that … Read more

A Container for One’s Truth in “The Wall” – Chicago Review of Books

A Container for One’s Truth in “The Wall” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin suggests that the “Hero story,” the one of conquest and knife-thrusting, is not the only form of storytelling available, even though it has become the dominant one. The alternative concept Le Guin offers is the bottle: “Not just the bottle of … Read more