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at Calvin College. This was a blast, guys. Here are some semi-cleaned-up excerpts from my notes.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need a literary agent. I need a literary patient.<\/li>\n
This<\/a> is a great poem. \u201cThe wall comes down.\u201d<\/li>\n
Calvin vs #orthodoxerasure\u2013there was a panel of Orthodox Christian poets, which had way too much bafflegabby \u201cwhat is liturgy, what is poetry<\/a>\u201d for my taste (although I loved<\/em> Scott Cairns\u2019s \u201cPoetry focuses your attention\u201d) but also made me think there are two conflicting, equally-true ways of thinking about liturgy. One is the view prevalent on this panel, where everything is liturgical. The sort of thing people mean when they say Cat\u2019lick writing is \u201csacramental<\/a>\u201d really, but maybe more focused on time<\/em> and rhythm rather than on physical objects and the five senses? I like that worldview. But I also think of a line, which I want to say is Wilde but can\u2019t remember precisely enough to find out (can you help me find this??), which in my mental paraphrase goes, \u201cEverything in the Mass is ridiculous, except the Victim on the altar.\u201d<\/li>\n
Wesley Hill\u2019s presentation on the challenges of writing about friendship<\/a> was super-excellent (and related to my four-part series that starts here<\/a>). I don\u2019t have much to add to what he wrote there but a) I liked a bit he quoted from Gail Caldwell, not her exact phrasing but a description of the struggle to acquire<\/em> responsibilities\u2013not to shed them. Friendship is, in a certain way, often the story of how the territory of love is claimed by slow, deliberate choices to take on more responsibility than you have to.<\/li>\n
Wes also made me realize how rare it is to find stories about the formation<\/em> of friendship. The best one I\u2019ve seen recently is, I think, We Are the Best!<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
Submission to the Church is made gentle, not brutal, by the tenderness in the Christian\u2019s relationship with the Church\u2013all those metaphors of woman\u2019s love, the Bride of Christ and Mother Church.<\/li>\n
One theme of the conference for me was the idea of reading and writing repentantly. I\u2019ve always liked this bit from St. Bonaventure<\/a> & I\u2019m still chewing on what it might mean to read or write in a spirit of repentance. It isn\u2019t really about criticizing one\u2019s past self, since that can often become a way of obliquely praising one\u2019s current, better self. Not all palinodes<\/a> are performative humility but I don\u2019t think palinodes exhaust the category of \u201crepentant writing.\u201d<\/li>\n
So like, a panel on representing \u201cothers\u201d in nonfiction (basically, the people whose struggles and stigma you don\u2019t share), suggested that the writer ask, \u201cWhat part<\/em> of this story is mine to tell?\u201d<\/li>\n
What they didn\u2019t say, but I would\u2013and this applies to fiction writing as well tbh\u2013is, Who gets paid? Where\u2019s the money going? If you\u2019re writing about stigmatized and relatively-powerless groups to which you don\u2019t belong, maybe you should not get all the cash. Like sorry to go all vulgar-Marxist on you but consider paying \u201crabbis,\u201d people within the community, to read your manuscript. I paid a couple Ethiopian Orthodox writers to look over the Emebet sections of Amends<\/em><\/a>, and while that was a \u201cstandard payment for editorial work\u201d situation and not a social-justice thing, arguably it was the right thing to do from a moral as well as an aesthetic standpoint. (They improved it a ton, made it more specific and funnier.) I\u2019m also realizing that some of the money for the book should go to a homeless woman who taught me some of what Emebet knows. *~*Representation*~* is important but so is cash on the barrelhead. LOL my bitterness about being interviewed. I\u2019m very grateful to be in your publication. (Sincerely. I know nobody is obligated to care about what I say.) I also would totally have written for you, for money, since that is how I pay my bills. (hmu eve_tushnet@yahoo.com I think for free when I have to :\/)<\/li>\n
Speaking of, this<\/a> is the coffee they were selling bags of in the coffee shop. Get that dollar.<\/li>\n
Self-awareness in writing isn\u2019t only about seeing your own flaws, but your own littleness, even your own powerlessness, and your ridiculousness. Which can be harder and more humiliating. Also, great audience comment from that writing-the-other panel: \u201cI found that I was exposing my flaws, but protecting my subjects, so I was always the most interesting person!\u201d Honesty about others\u2019 flaws can<\/em>, when done carefully, be a mitzvah, a service both to the reader and to the subject.<\/li>\n
And speaking of: Dennis Covington<\/a> told a story about a New York Times<\/em> story he wrote about snake-handlers, which closed with a quotation from one woman which was something like, \u201cI knowed it was the truth.\u201d This woman is explaining why she made a difficult decision, in order to follow her conscience. But on the plane home Covington ran into a woman reading this exact story in the paper, who, not knowing he was the writer, complained bitterly about stereotypes of illiterate Southerners. You can see the woman\u2019s bad grammar as a sign of her social powerlessness\u2013making her decision to stand up for the truth even more admirable\u2013or you can see it as purely shameful. There are so many things like this, where people\u2019s judgments about whether elements of their lives are sources of pride or shame aren\u2019t predictable\u2013in fact we got another story<\/a> about this very thing on that same panel, about a gang member and prisoner who wanted the writer to use his full name instead of giving him the protection of anonymity, since he wanted people to know that he was more than<\/em> a gang member and prisoner. By offering anonymity the writer had come close to insulting him. You don\u2019t always know what\u2019s shameful, and to whom.<\/li>\n
James K.A. Smith with a great line: \u201cYoung people are not looking for liberation from ritual. They are looking for liberating rituals.\u201d<\/li>\n
And! \u201cThe discipline and regimen of historic Christian worship\u2026 [plies] and stretch[es] your imagination.\u201d<\/li>\n
A panel on \u201creenchantment\u201d got into a brief, but for me fruitful, discussion of pornography. These are my thoughts, not theirs: Like liturgy, porn is a habit of seeing; an anti-liturgy of anti-icons. The icon is a window to the Divine, while porn is very nearly defined by its lack of interiority. The icon is vertical while porn refuses even to be horizontal. (That\u2019s why the characters and events are predictable, and predictably satisfying, if that\u2019s the word I want. \u201cDoes what it says on the tin.\u201d) But there is porn with some character interiority. What there isn\u2019t, I think, is porn where the flesh is an icon of its true meaning. Even depictions of real human longings like justice, submission, or self-gift can only become pornographic when they\u2019re filtered through lies. (Racist porn is the easiest example of this but I can\u2019t think of any exceptions.)<\/li>\n
Norman Wirzba, super-paraphrased: \u201cWe\u2019ve been taught to view soil as nothing but a container for hydrogen, nitrogen, and [phosphates?]. And this view has almost destroyed our planet. So I tried to figure out, What is soil? And I couldn\u2019t. I couldn\u2019t find a clear boundary between biotic and abiotic. Soil is a holy mystery.\u201d (The pornography of soil vs its iconicity!)<\/li>\n
Nadia Bolz-Weber did the closing keynote. Some notes from her, relevant to all memoirists etc\u2013one guy told her, \u201cWe were taught in seminary not to talk too much about ourselves in our sermons because it\u2019s not about you. But you talk about yourself all the the time in your sermons, and it\u2019s not about you.\u201d I second that and it is so powerful.<\/li>\n
On why she does talk so much about her own \u201cstuff\u201d: She exposes her own mess and disaster to create a space others can walk into if they choose. \u201cIt\u2019s a form of leadership I call, \u2018Screw it\u2013I\u2019ll just go first.'\u201d And she added something like, \u201cIf [listeners] have a reaction about me<\/em>, I haven\u2019t done it right.\u201d<\/li>\n
So, that\u2019s my notes. I welcome your thoughts on any of this\u2013comments, questions, howls of execration? eve_tushnet@yahoo.com or find me on the twitters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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