M. Allen Cunningham

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You, Me, and the Screen Between: An Elegy

Today’s civic breakdowns are rooted in a pandemic of screen-addiction reaching back 65 years to a misunderstood chapter of American…

Mar 1, 2021

You, Me, and the Screen Between: An Elegy

Mar 1, 2021

M. Allen Cunningham

Outsideness, 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, 2018

Outsideness, or: My Phone Says “Searching…”

Sep 12, 2018

M. Allen Cunningham

Suspended Animation

An Excerpt from the novel The Green Age of Asher Witherow

Oct 10, 2017

Oct 10, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

Let Us Now Praise the Public Library

The library is meticulously organized but breeds chance discoveries. It’s public and yet serene. You’re never alone in the library, but…

Sep 19, 2017

Sep 19, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

Notes on Art & Politics

In contrast to propaganda, art consists of questions. It is a kind of civic virtue.

Jun 9, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

Thoreau’s WALDEN Roundly Rejected by Today’s Publishers

“The author’s philosophical tangents are distracting and hard to follow.”

Jun 7, 2017

Thoreau’s WALDEN Roundly Rejected by Today’s Publishers

Jun 7, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

Rilke & Me: From Prague to Muzot

Pictures from my travels & research for LOST SON, my novel about Rilke that was published 10 years ago this spring

Jun 7, 2017

Jun 7, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

John Ruskin on Soulful Imperfection

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression.”

Jun 3, 2017

Jun 3, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

Ghost Coda

A pilgrimage while writing a novel about Rilke

Jun 3, 2017

Jun 3, 2017

M. Allen Cunningham

The Silent Generations

“He wanted to be the humming wire, outside time.”

May 4, 2017