Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

By Wes Jamison I began to follow Writing About Writing on Facebook when I redesigned my English 101 course. We entered the class focusing on what we learn about writing when we pay attention to what writers say about writing, both the noun and the verb, and how they learned to do it. I thought…

by Jake Brewer Some fiction writers focus on character, others on plot, still others on fleshing out the regional location of their work—this setting, in turn, becoming a character as much as any other. Shome Dasgupta manages to focus on all three of these aspects in his short novel Pretend I Am Someone Like You,…

by Patti Pangborn On October 18, poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch delivered his lecture “Poetry and the Problem of Politics” as part of the annual Flora Plonsky Levy Lecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Kirsch explored how politics can both inspire poets and shape the way we read poetry, examining Percy Bysshe…

By: Gina Warren Whit Bolado is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Georgia whose work has appeared in Duende and Underground, the undergraduate literary journal of Georgia State University. His most recent publication, “What We Know of Them,” a story about relationships, change, and the function of collective voices, appeared in the Winter 2018 Issue…