You Fit Into Me (1971)
you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
A brilliant poet and author, Margaret Atwood is a master of English language. She does not shy from controversy, and her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tail is often eroneously criticized as prophecy of an American Christian theocracy. […]

Journaist and Professor Richard Rodriguez is “a noted prose stylist” and “controversial writer”, “who is primarily known for his 1982 book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez“. In this clip from the PBS seires “Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason”, Rodriguez talks about the dichotomy of being a gay Catholic.

“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living in the sky — who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has […]

“I was never tormented in the way those early rock and rollers were between gospel and the blues. I always saw them as parts of each other. I like the anger of the blues–I think being angry with God is at least a dialogue. You know, [Robert Johnson’s] “Hell Hound on My Trail”–the blues is […]