Sy Safransky
Sy Safransky is founder and editor emeritus of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
August 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 1979July 1979
Orbits
By the time you read this, Skylab may already have tumbled out of orbit and crashed back to Earth. I wish something else would tumble: the kind of mentality that put Skylab up there in the first place, with so little regard for the future.
July 1979June 1979
Words
There are no words / for who I am. I / build myself up, / I tear myself down.
June 1979March 1979
The Sun Also Changes
I’d always been interested in journalism, in writing and in self-expression. The magazine actually grew out of a conversation with Mike Mathers, who then ran the Community Bookstore. That’s when I was running the juice bar and I used to bring him juice drinks for lunch every day. Then one day we got to talking about how it would be nice if Chapel Hill had a newsletter or a magazine.
March 1979February 1979
Stories
The eyes she discovered by a lake in thirteenth century France. They had rolled down the hillside, gathering momentum until they saw their own reflection.
February 1979January 1979
Fathers
To let our parents be, to accept them as people, human and therefore imperfect, rather than as gods — that is the challenge.
January 1979
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