What It Means to Be Fully Present. Audio recordings will be played through small speakers inside pillows on a hotel room bed. Submit your stories by Thursday April 17th.

Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-tem gain for long-term pain. It was like a giant slug eating its way relentlessly through all the other bioforms on the planet, grinding up life on earth and shitting it out the backside in the form of pieces of manufactured and soon-to-be-obsolete plastic junk.

A site by University of Iowa Interpretation of Literature students. Occasionally a date with a face blank as a sheet of paper asks you whether writers often become discouraged. Say that sometimes they do and sometimes they do. The Jane Austen Book Club. Moore Parallels Bechdel on Grieving.

Love, Citizenship, and Belonging. A site by University of Iowa Literature and Sexualities students. About Love, Citizenship, and Belonging. Where is too far? May 1, 2013. Is it our human nature to gossip about others or as a society are we getting worse when it comes to watching others fail? Is Suicide a Solution to the Absurd? April 29, 2013. The theme of death seems to be a common reoccurrence in this book.