PinnedM. Allen CunninghamYou, Me, and the Screen Between: An ElegyToday’s civic breakdowns are rooted in a pandemic of screen-addiction reaching back 65 years to a misunderstood chapter of American…Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
M. Allen CunninghamOutsideness, or: My Phone Says “Searching…”Despite our mirror-like devices, we in the American West inhabit a world much, much larger than ourselves.Sep 12, 2018Sep 12, 2018
M. Allen CunninghamSuspended AnimationAn Excerpt from the novel The Green Age of Asher WitherowOct 10, 2017Oct 10, 2017
M. Allen CunninghamLet Us Now Praise the Public LibraryThe library is meticulously organized but breeds chance discoveries. It’s public and yet serene. You’re never alone in the library, but…Sep 19, 2017Sep 19, 2017
M. Allen CunninghamNotes on Art & PoliticsIn contrast to propaganda, art consists of questions. It is a kind of civic virtue.Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017
M. Allen CunninghamThoreau’s WALDEN Roundly Rejected by Today’s Publishers“The author’s philosophical tangents are distracting and hard to follow.”Jun 7, 2017Jun 7, 2017
M. Allen CunninghamRilke & Me: From Prague to MuzotPictures from my travels & research for LOST SON, my novel about Rilke that was published 10 years ago this springJun 7, 20171Jun 7, 20171
M. Allen CunninghamJohn Ruskin on Soulful Imperfection“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression.”Jun 3, 2017Jun 3, 2017
M. Allen CunninghamThe Silent Generations“He wanted to be the humming wire, outside time.”May 4, 2017May 4, 2017