Snapshot
When I was nineteen, I moved to Montreal both for school and in the hope that the city would be for me what Paris was for the Lost Generation. That moveable feast, to quote Hemingway; that Babylon to be revisited, to quote Fitzgerald instead. Unlike Hemingway or Fitzgerald, I wasn't ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | S.K. Kalsi
Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? S.K. Kalsi: Language inspires me, everyday speech with its hidden rhythms, cadences, and how meaning is contextual. My son inspires me. Seeing his fearlessness at play. Watching him take risks, fall, get back up, and try again. His dogged persistence. Nature ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Andrew McLinden, Gertrude Stein Award 2014, 1st Place Winner
I've always been interested in books and music, although coming from a working class background, I didn't call it art. I was brought up to believe that artists handled paint brushes. I’m a lyricist and co-write songs with my brother Paul: www.paulmclindenmusic.com —Andrew McLinden Who would you arm wrestle, if you ... Read More
Writer. Not Author.
That’s me there. The girl in the brown and white saddle shoes. Clunky. Out of place even at her own desk. Worried that she doesn’t belong. Eager to please. Working her little fingers to nubbins trying to copy the cursive handwriting she is taught to do. Always wondering, watching for ... Read More