Ruminations

Ruminations

This issue, we have two ponderings.

Photo by Christina Schmidt

Meta-Hamster: The Critical Work of Creative Nonfiction
by Deborah Thompson

In my childhood, hamster-keeping was so popular it was practically a rite of passage. It never occurred to me that things were ever any different, or that this tradition was a new invention. I’ve since learned . . .

Photo by Inka Probst

The Dance Studio as Writer’s Studio
by Renée E. D’Aoust

The dance studio contains the sacred quartet of a dancer’s life: the mirror, the teacher, the self, the music. In the writer’s studio this might be mapped to the page, the editor, the self, the reader. In this set-up the audience (and by extension the reader) is . . .