Syntax/Synapse Essays
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The Science of Magical Thinking
Kristopher Jansma
Saleem Sinai, the narrator of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, is born at exactly midnight on the 15th of August...
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That's My Story and I'm (Probabilistically) Sticking to It
Liam Durcan
The man kept on talking and talking, telling me about the cat that was brushing up against his right thigh at that very moment
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On Mind & Meaning
Dexter Palmer
The pattern of my conversation with strangers at parties changed in two ways after I published a novel. The first, and the less common of the...
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Fires in the Brain: Consciousness and Creation
Jeffery Renard Allen
I was twelve years old in 1975 when I first heard the beautiful and haunting Michael Murphy song “Wild Fire,” which is about a ghost woman...
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Abounding and Superabounding
Elizabeth McKenzie
It had been a small reading, the kind one expects of course, and I knew everyone who attended, except for one man who was neither an old friend...
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A Fiction for the Future
Erik Hoel
At first it happened slowly, then all at once. We are now living in a world that would have been considered science fiction to any twentieth-century novelist.