“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to […]
Hernan Diaz’s Trust is a 2023 Pulitzer-prize winning tale told from the viewpoint of four narrators—a style of presenting a story that brilliant Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa introduced in his classic film, Rashomon. But while narrators in Rashomon give their self-serving versions of one incident—a killing and sexual assault that they witnessed, those in Trust […]