“[Notre Dame] professor David Cortright, a Vietnam veteran against the war, reminds us: “Budgets are moral documents.” Are we profiting from conflicts we morally oppose? How do we distinguish between just and unjust wars in an investment portfolio?“

If you’re in the #Atlanta area this coming Friday, and you’re an Ethan Hawke and/or Flannery O’Connor fan, check out this screening of the Hawke-directed O’Connor biopic, Wildcat, at the Tara Theatre. Oscilloscope Laboratories

“I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery”

open.spotify.com/track/1CM1wOqD…

Just finished updating the list of texts we read in my course 'Writer as Physician; Physician as Writer' for my students to reference when writing their final exam, and thought I would share it with y'all. They are listed in the order we read them. #narrativemed #medhum

Don’t usually look to Burroughs for life advice or guidance, but….

“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.”

~ William S. Burroughs

Looking for a book on photographing atrocity from a perspective that is NOT Sontag. Check out Jewish Israeli scholar Ariella Azoulay's THE CIVIL CONTRACT IN PHOTOGRAPH. h/t Teju Cole's essay 'What Does it Mean to Look at This?' from BLACK TICKETS. (pencil markings not mine)

I had not read Foss’ review prior to writing my own for U.S. Catholic magazine, but we agree in certain ways that make me think it ain’t just me.

“In truth, outside of blockbuster Hollywood deals and celebrity memoirs, and the rare commissioned work of art, no significant act of imagination is ever 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟. This is precisely the power of art; it is unexpected and useless ... The purest impulses for acts of…

'Why do the Heathen Rage' is lovingly researched, but tries too hard to paint O’Connor as a saint.
uscatholic.org/articles/20240…

Very grateful for this review. 25 years ago I might have been uncomfortable with the conversation about O'Connor's racism, but now I think it is absolutely necessary.

My review of Flannery O’Connor’s “unfinished novel” is up just in time for the weekend. Thx to U.S. Catholic magazine for giving it a home.

Meeting w students in my 'Writer as Physician' course today to discuss their final projects and a Classics and Pre-Med major shared this Propertius poem w me:

'Medicine cures all human sorrows: only love likes no doctor for its disease.'

poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Pr…

#narrativemed

Never seen this Bob Dylan quote before. It’s so true for me. Really, it’s the only way I can get any significant creative project done—just go into the cave and be like bye 👋