Featured Artist: Jamie McArdle
Synkroniciti is thrilled to introduce writer Jamie McArdle. Her story “Grace,” a love story informed by changing social norms on the early American farm, inspired by a census entry, swept …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #26: Japanese Supernatural Art from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Day 26! Today’s Globe-trotting Travel Series features a video about supernatural characters in Japanese art, from woodblocks to manga, video games and pop culture. Such a clever presentation and fascinating …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the …
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new …
The Soul in the Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 3
I have enjoyed discovering a menagerie of characters in these campfire photos from a night my husband and I spent near Great Sand Dunes National Park last summer. It’s a bit like picking …
Personified Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 1
This week I am sharing a series of photos which I took at our campfire near Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado last June. Looking at them, I not …
Quote for Today: Tennessee Williams
I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t. Stay open to them. It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. …
Moments from Other Lives: Thoughts on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Are you attracted to characters and story lines that surprise you? Life doesn’t always make sense and neither does art. Many literary works are peopled with stereotypes and follow formulae which …
Quote for Today: Verlyn Klinkenborg
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her …