Portal
One thing leads to another: a cool summer dawn, the dog with a dead bird, the garden’s sudden...
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George Ovitt
George Ovitt lives with his wife and daughters in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches high school history, plays blues guitar, and writes poems and stories. He is the author of The Restoration of Perfection (Rutgers Univ. Press). He was moved to write "Fiction and Empathy" by the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who, in Ovitt's view, did a great deal to reestablish the Jamesian connection between fiction and compassion.
George Ovitt lives with his wife and daughters in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches high school history, plays blues guitar, and writes poems and stories. He is the author of The Restoration of Perfection (Rutgers Univ. Press). He was moved to write "Fiction and Empathy" by the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who, in Ovitt's view, did a great deal to reestablish the Jamesian connection between fiction and compassion.
Posts by George Ovitt
Fiction and Empathy
“Was someone asking to see the soul?” -Walt Whitman A terrible fact of our humanity is our...
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