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Natalya Sukhonos
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Sep 10, 2018

The Beautiful Faraway: Why I’m Grateful for My Soviet Childhood

At 10 I wanted to be an artist, practiced a hysterical form of Christianity, talked to trees, and turned a sunset at a local park into a visionary experience. My great-aunt lured me to Evangelical Christianity with the strangeness of Gospel stories where Jesus always ended up angry at his…

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The Beautiful Faraway: Why I’m Grateful for My Soviet Childhood
The Beautiful Faraway: Why I’m Grateful for My Soviet Childhood
Music

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Aug 19, 2018

Keeping It Real in the Ivory Tower: A Manifesto

Imagine walking up to your academic colleague in the humanities and saying: “I can’t wait to get the new book by X. It’s supposed to come out tomorrow in City Lights. Have you heard of it? It’s supposed to be amazing!” …

Academia

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Keeping It Real in the Ivory Tower: A Manifesto
Keeping It Real in the Ivory Tower: A Manifesto
Academia

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Aug 17, 2018

The Zen of Consumption, or, Food as Aesthetic Experience

We often denigrate pulp fiction by saying it embodies a consumerist approach to art, that a thriller leads us to consume the book for plot and such. But we are not being fair to alternate meanings of consumption. What about being consumed by emotion, being consumed by fire? It occurs…

Art

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The Zen of Consumption, or, Food as Aesthetic Experience
The Zen of Consumption, or, Food as Aesthetic Experience
Art

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Natalya Sukhonos

Natalya Sukhonos

3 Followers

Poet, mother, dreamer, academic, not necessarily in that order.

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