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Thomas Wendell Simpson

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Olean, NY, The United States

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Religion, History, Memoir

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Natalie Goldberg, Anne Lamott, Joe Sacco, Susan Sontag, Simone de Beau ...more

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Author of American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

Author of "All We Have Left" and "Recovery's Rhythm and Blues," published in the literary magazine Numéro Cinq

Ph.D., European and American Religious History, University of Virginia.

Instructor in Religion, Philosophy, and Human Rights, Phillips Exeter Academy. ...more

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Thomas Wendell Simpson Over and over again, I go back to Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones and Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird to remind myself how important it is to be …moreOver and over again, I go back to Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones and Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird to remind myself how important it is to be uninhibited early in the process -- to allow myself full freedom to generate raw, unfiltered material and keep nagging obsessions with publication at bay. Often, following Goldberg's lead, I'll draft the early material with pen and paper, which feels far more soothing and encouraging to me than a blank computer screen. Once I generate the raw material, much of which I'll scrap, I leave time to step away, return, and revise, so that the best ideas can really marinate and come to me in their own time. (less)

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Thomas Wendell Simpson A collection of my literary essays about religion, violence, and recovery in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, two of which have appeared in the wonderf…moreA collection of my literary essays about religion, violence, and recovery in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, two of which have appeared in the wonderful Canadian literary magazine Numéro Cinq. The collection will be edited and introduced by one of my favorite Bosnian writers, Goran Simić.

(I visited Bosnia and Herzegovina for the first time in 2004, as the director of Emory University's "Journeys of Reconciliation" program. You can see photographs and essays from my travels at https://tomsimpsonphd.wordpress.com/). (less)

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Reading with Adrian Shirk and Mercy Carbonell TONIGHT at the Word Barn!

Tonight at 7 pm at Exeter NH's fabulous Word Barn, I'll be in a literary jam session on gernder, power, and resistance with the extraordinary Adrian Shirk (author of AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, an NPR Best Book of 2017) and Phillips Exeter writing instructor Mercy Carbonell. http://www.thewordbarn.com/the-silo-s... Read more of this blog post »

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