Learned Behaviors: Notes on Narrative and Belonging
by M. Allen Cunningham
M. Allen Cunningham on the way his fundamentalist evangelical upbringing formed him as a writer, delivering him an awareness of narrative and how story shapes our lives.
M. Allen Cunningham is the author of Date of Disappearance, a short story collection recently released in illustrated limited edition by Atelier26 Books. His novels are Lost Son (2007), about the poet Rilke, and The Green Age of Asher Witherow(2004), a #1 Book Sense Pick. Cunningham’s short stories which have appeared in such places as The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other distinguished literary magazines, and have been featured in live performance by the New Short Fiction Series of Beverly Hills. Visit his website at www.mallencunningham.com.
M. Allen Cunningham on the way his fundamentalist evangelical upbringing formed him as a writer, delivering him an awareness of narrative and how story shapes our lives.
Gadgets, online personae, and constant motion threaten the extinction of solitude. Does our need for incessant connection threaten creativity?
