Into the Archive
I love this picture of my dad at work in his study, hunched over, pounding out another story on his favorite manual, which was heavy enough to serve as a boat anchor for an ocean liner. The desk is too small, the chair is too small and too hard, the sunlight flooding the room is too bright. It’s too hot, but the air condition hasn’t been turned on. A cassette tape boom box is doubtless playing one of his recordings of music off the classical radio station. Paper surrounds him: it’s in the typewriter, on the desk, in the...
read moreKountze in the News: Effing the Ineffable (An East Texas Revery)
So, here’s the set-up. It’s Friday Night in the small East Texas town of Kountze. And Friday Night means football. It’s fall, 2012. The Kountze Tigers suit up and when the time comes they charge through the opening in the back of a large inflatable football helmet. They are led by a player carrying a flag that reads: “I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me. Ph 4:13.” To the cheers of the crowd, of the pompom waving cheerleaders, and of the jumping tiger-pajammaed mascot, the team bursts through a...
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