
An Unbroken Grace – Fred Bahnson
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Writer's Job Is to Give Language to Pain
"Barry didn't write the harper's essay because it was cathartic or because he thought his personal suffering was a story worth telling," she writes. "The writer's job, he believed, is to give language to pain or injury or injustice." She says her particular reason for writing is to provide illumination for a nation that is chronically pathologically distracted. 'I want to promote stories that contribute to the stability of my own culture'
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