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“I met Neptune in his wrath” – Joshua Slocum

July 31, 2014 by William Eaton

“The acute pain of solitude experienced at first never returned” to Capt. Joshua Slocum, author of the quintessential travelogue, Sailing Alone Around the World. I met Neptune in his wrath, but he found that I had not treated him with contempt, and so he suffered me to go on and explore. Slocum left Boston on April 24, 1895, returning three years later. His book was an international bestseller. It is a delightful, incredible, fabulous and awesome story. Delightful because of its superb […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR

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Mother is Drinking to Forget a Man

July 29, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

“Mother is drinking to forget a man / who could fill the woods with invitations”is perhaps one of the best poem openers I have come across. Sure, it is simple. But it is also grotesque. The phrase is already a poem before the poem even begins. This line opens Lynn Emanuel’s poem “Frying Trout While Drunk.” Emanuel is a well-established poet, whose work won a Pushcart Prize, one of the most important prizes awarded in the literary world. Today, she teaches […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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Limiting fantasy play: A view of Mennonite kids

July 28, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Views about what is good and bad for children vary across cultures. The rural Mennonite community in Chihuahua—perhaps the most visibly cohesive ethnoreligious immigrant group in Mexico—certainly has its own ideas. Briefly put here, Canadian Mennonite immigrants (originally from Russia) began settling in Chihuahua in 1922. Back then, the Mexican government seemed to believe that the country needed people like them to work the land, resulting in president Alvaro Obregón allowing Mennonites to establish an autonomous community in the north. Since […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, education, literature

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“There is nothing remotely objective about photography”

July 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] (1) The quotation of the title, the photograph at right, and the words below are from Object Lessons, an article by the photojournalist Nina Berman, who also teaches at the Columbia University Journalism School.  The article caught my eye because it features some powerful images and also because, concurrently, I was reading an intriguing Zeteo submission about how news stories fit within long-long-standing narrative traditions (e.g. of parables or moral tales). That said, I turn you over to Professor Berman, from the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Africa, art, corporations, crime, journalism, photography, women

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Never Call Your Partner a Trophy

July 26, 2014 by William Eaton

I have recently acquired a television after living the last 6 (peaceful) years without one. I must admit that Jeopardy at 7 has filled a small nostalgic void in my life, but the morning news is an utter disgrace to the myriad of monumentally important and tragic situations that are occurring around the world right now (and always). It did however lead me to this article by James Hamblin, “The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women,” published in The […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: gender, mating, relationships, The Atlantic

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The wonderful world of social media

July 25, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I am in Los Angeles this week working on pre-production for a short film I am directing and producing for my MFA. I have been meeting with producer friends who have put me in touch with potential cast and crew and helped me in the location scouting process – while at the same time I have been preparing my crowdfunding campaign so I can launch when I return to NYC. My least favorite part of creating work. Fundraising. Although I […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, social media, women

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“Everything Is Done in Pantomime” – part II of II

July 24, 2014 by William Eaton

The second of two reviews. See part I – click here In Pictures from Italy, Charles Dickens’ description of Napolitanos doing “everything in pantomime” illustrates his unsurpassed skill at animating a scene: …beggars rap their chins with their right hands… the conventional sign for hunger. A man quarrelling with another lays the palm of his right hand on the back of his left, and shakes the two thumbs—expressive of a donkey’s ears — [goading] his adversary. Two people bargaining for […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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All I Want is a Job!

July 22, 2014 by William Eaton

By Moorel Bey Review of All I Want Is A Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System by Mary Gatta (Stanford University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   The Great Recession that began in 2007 has also been referred to as the “Great Mancession” due to the fact job loss was predominantly in male-dominated fields such as transportation, manufacturing, and construction. At the same time, female-dominated fields, such as education, health services, public administration, and government, saw slight increases in employment. […]

Categories: Review • Tags: jobs, women

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I, too, am America

July 22, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

 “Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . .” wrote author Du Bose Heyward in the New York Herald Tribune in 1926. Despite such praise, Hughes was derided by his fellow black writers of the time for allowing race to be a main character in many of his works. The Poetry Foundation’s site has a terrific summary of Hughes’s historical relevance. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: History, literature, poetry, writing

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