Articles by Sonya Chung

November 5, 2012

Confessions of an Analogian Writing for the Webs 22

In that moment, I got it — what all this fuss about social networking was about. Give the tools a try, just be yourself; write what you care about. Weird things will start to happen.

September 28, 2012

Post-40 Bloomer: Susan Starr Richards Escapes the ‘Southern Boy’ World 0

My time was always fairly equally divided between the horses and my writing, the difference being that the horses always came first, and the writing had to be fitted in around their needs and their schedules. But in my imagination, there was always a confluence of visions.

August 14, 2012

All You Have Is What You Remember: The Millions Interviews James Salter 7

“All you have in life is what you remember. It’s the one filament connecting you to the void. It doesn’t necessarily become art.”

August 6, 2012

Post-40 Bloomer: Mary Costello’s Immaculate Sadness 3

There is much sadness, of the starkly honest and lonely variety, in Costello’s stories. She gets it so right – achingly right – how love and loss are indistinguishable.

June 29, 2012

Post-40 Bloomer: Anna Keesey’s Little Century 2

Little Century is a book I’d recommend to anyone who embraces the dark and bright sides of life with equal gusto.

June 19, 2012

On Loneliness: Art, Life, and Fucking Human Beings 13

There are days when it seems to me that what it is to be a fucking human being is to be lonely; to be in this state of deep sadness and estrangement, and to know that there is something terribly wrong about this loneliness on the one hand, and on the other (in knowing the wrongness utterly), something also potentially beautiful.