The Mayfly Glimmer Before Last Call

by Poe Ballantine, November 1998 (Issue 275)
(Fiction)

Posted on: July 01, 2009

Recommended by: Krista Bremer, Associate Publisher, Circulation & Marketing
Why she likes it: “Poe Ballantine writes about the ragged intersection of substance abuse, longing, and despair with extraordinary insight and humor. Like the drugs his characters so voraciously consume, his writing is intoxicating, mind-altering, and dangerously addictive.”

Saving The Indigenous Soul

An Interview With Martin Prechtel

by Derrick Jensen, April 2001 (Issue 304)
(The Sun Interview)

Posted on: June 01, 2009

Recommended by: Luc Saunders, Editorial Assistant
Why he likes it: “This interview with Martín Prechtel is a poignant evocation of the Mayan worldview, reminding us of the power of ritual, the eloquence of grief, and the sacredness of everyday life.”

Stealing Souls

Thoughts On Photography

by John Rosenthal, March 1983 (Issue 88)
(Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories)

Posted on: May 01, 2009

This interview appears in the anthology A Bell Ringing In The Empty Sky: The Best of The Sun, Volume II.

The Myth Of Therapy

An Interview With James Hillman

by Sy Safransky, April 1991 (Issue 185)
(The Sun Interview)

Posted on: April 01, 2009

This interview appears in the anthology Stubborn Light: The Best of The Sun, Volume III.

Under The Apple Tree

by Laura Pritchett, August 2006 (Issue 368)
(Fiction)

Posted on: March 01, 2009

Recommended by: Brenda Nelson, a Sun reader
Why she likes it: “I love this story because it’s sensual, erotic, and filled with unbearable longing. Every so often I reread it just for the high.”

How To Bury A Dog

by Holly Ann Hyde, February 2003 (Issue 326)
(Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories)

Posted on: February 01, 2009

Recommended by: Zoe Griss-Bush, a Sun reader
Why she likes it: “I read it on the bus on the way to high school years ago, and by the end of the story I was sobbing. My dog was getting old, and we were all anticipating that her end was near. This story spoke directly to my heart.”

Bathifying

by Sparrow, August 2002 (Issue 320)
(Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories)

Posted on: January 01, 2009

Recommended by: Genie Zeiger, author and Sun contributor
Why she likes it: “Because bathifying is almost as great as sexifying!”

What Miss Lena Prays For

by Jessica Anya Blau, September 1998 (Issue 273)
(Fiction)

Posted on: December 01, 2008

Recommended by: Rachel J. Elliott, Editorial Associate
Why she likes it: “It’s the story of an unlikely friendship that is both touching and funny.”

Behold

by Tim Melley, June 2004 (Issue 342)
(Fiction)

Posted on: November 01, 2008

Recommended by: Luc Saunders, Editorial Assistant
Why he likes it: “I laughed. I cried. I held my mother just a little bit longer the next time I hugged her.”

Crossing Borders

An Interview With Richard Rodriguez

by Scott London, August 1997 (Issue 260)
(The Sun Interview)

Posted on: October 01, 2008

Recommended by: Poe Ballantine, author and Sun contributor
Why he likes it: “Because Rodriguez is so valiantly eloquent and gloomily humorous, and because he is such a vivid and courageous outsider. This essay in many ways impelled me to live in Mexico. I returned with a Mexican wife.”