Quote for Today: Jo Walton
I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s …
The Outsider as a Mirror: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Outsiders inspire fear and enchantment. What does our reaction to those who are different say about us and our beliefs? Literature and film contain shining examples of outsiders, but I …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. ― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Outsider Art Challenges Convention: BBC Culture
Outsider Art Challenges Convention: BBC Culture This is an interesting piece by Alistair Sooke about the Venice Biennale which has chosen outsider art for a theme this year. The exhibition, …
Quote for Today: Quentin Crisp
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live …
Remembering Jean Stapleton: Rebel in a Housedress from Emancipation Conversation
Jean Stapleton may be remembered as the dingy but long-suffering Edith Bunker, possessing a voice that could scratch glass in the rendition of Those Were the Days that opened the Archie Bunker …