Freelance writer and radio presenter
Born on November 9, 1928, Anne Sexton redefined modern poetry by turning confession into art. Her fearless voice transformed private anguish into public language, reshaping English verse with intimacy, rhythm, and raw emotion. Through her candor, she gave pain eloquence — and vulnerability, its own poetic form.
Birth of Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974) – The Confessional Voice That Redefined English-Language Poetry
A woman recently reached out to me after finding the snippets of my translation of Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood. Attached to her email was the photo above. Her parents, who had gone through German DP camps and settled in Los Angeles in 1949, befriended Voloshin and his wife, Helen, in the ’50s, frequently […]
Face to Face with Alexander Voloshin
Born on November 7, 1913, Albert Camus gave English a new moral language — lucid, humane, and quietly rebellious. Through translation, his French voice reshaped English prose, teaching it to speak of absurdity, dignity, and revolt with clarity. In his words, truth became courage, and simplicity, strength.
Birth of Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) – The Philosopher-Poet of the Absurd
Neurosis and Human Growth Towards the end of Karen’s career, she mapped out the super-ego/ideal-self and demonstrated how pathological and inhuman it was. And when a super-ego takes hold of a culture, those inhuman standards are exacted against oneself and policed throughout the public. It can eventually become a normalized way of being, so that […]
Cultural Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney Pt. 11
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