Sy Safransky
Sy Safransky is founder and editor emeritus of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
An Interview With Jimmy Santiago Baca
On Writing, Prison, and The Human Spirit
But you can’t look to the institutions of learning for the moral way of living. You have to look at those people that mix pluses and minuses together to get some weird, weird formula. And that’s exactly how I try to live. I try to mix the moon with the sun, and the stars with the water. And I try to come up with a new universe.
January 1980An Interview With Patricia Sun
I don’t think when people get divorced it is necessarily a failure of the marriage, I think sometimes it is a finishing, a completing of the marriage. That you sometimes have worked out all the things that you can work out together.
December 1979October 1979
The Open Door
Reasons, someone wrote, are whores. I believe that. The rational mind bends and scrapes like a sycophantic servant caught napping. I’m not against reason. I just don’t trust it if I’m out of the room.
October 1979August 1979
Three . . . And Three
After she left, he sat up all night watching his body for signs of change, then watching his mind, trying to arrange his thoughts like jewelry.
August 1979
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