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May.02.2013
To recognize and appreciate diversity is an ability which can improve the conditions of society, I believe.
Therefore, the Award for fluency in languages and fluidity of imagination in a worldwide context of diversity and change this year goes to Hari Kunzru, author of the acclaimed novel "...
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Apr.03.2013
These are two villanelles I wrote, riffing on ideas of H.D. Thoreau:
Thoreau Riff #4
Thoreau said “nature never makes haste,”
(like a frantic frenetic compulsive man)
“her systems revolve at an even pace”
with rainy nights and welcome Sundays
interspersed among routine’s grains...
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Mar.27.2013
How “Gypsies” inspired my novel Gypsy Escapades William J. Jackson
Seeking one thing we sometimes find another; yet often it’s the thing not originally sought which enables us to understand better the entire picture of what we were seeking...
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Aug.21.2012
It took me a few decades to write and rewrite the novel Diving for Carlos. It began as part of a novella about a priest, begun in New York City, in 1963 or ‘64. And then it became a screenplay written for the director Steve Carnovsky—we met and discussed it often during the 1965 season at Stratford...
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Jan.26.2012
Time is a mysterious dimension to explore. When you’re young there seems to be so much of it, but you don’t yet know that it’s beyond your control.
From 1965 to 1995 (during Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHWBush, and Clinton presidencies) I worked on a novel about growing up in Midwest...
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Oct.19.2011
So three neighbors were sitting on the porch with freaky jack-o-lanterns and floating ghosts and a big bowl of candy to hand out. It was a chilly night, with rain sometimes, and occasional glimpses of the moon. “So, what’s the scariest thing you’ve seen so far this year?” I asked. I’m the guy...
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Feb.03.2010
Oh it’s you. How’ve you been? Me? With the church membership dwindling I’ve been busy—too busy.
As deacon I opened the church to let the cleaning woman in at dusk. I stood at the top of the stairs at the front of the church under the big arch and looked out.
I saw silhouettes… moving shapes under...
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"Reality...has a sliding floor."”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
About William
I am the author of several books about South Indian culture. I also have published fiction in small publications in Vermont, and a novel entitled "Diving for Carlos," about growing up Midwest, available at amazon.com. I have published flash fiction in Long...