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Stephen O'Connor
34 books16 followersSTEPHEN OCONNOR is the author of two collections of short fiction, Rescue and Here Comes Another Lesson, and of two works of nonfiction, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir, and Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, narrative history.
His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Poetry Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and many other places. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.
He is a recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University; the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society; and the DeWitt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York City and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the MFA programs of Columbia and Sarah Lawrence.
For additional information, please visit:www.stephenoconnor.net
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His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Poetry Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and many other places. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.
He is a recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University; the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society; and the DeWitt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York City and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the MFA programs of Columbia and Sarah Lawrence.
For additional information, please visit:www.stephenoconnor.net
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November 13, 2022
I loved how engaging, intriguing, and different this text is. Not to mention, how easy it is to follow. Despite the easy writing though, Ziggurat is a deep story. A very symbolic one as well. To me, the Minotaur was a symbol of the gods and goddesses or any divine, sublime, entity that we humans created and the "new girl" could be us "new people" who slowly forget we had these mystical creatures to the point they disappear from our minds. We evolved throughout time and after a while we forget the magic of the past and despite the past being stuck in a labyrinth that could still be escaped, it remains there and just there. Until the time that we decide to revisit that labyrinth. Maybe that's the meaning of mythology to us nowadays. Who knows? I think this story is open for multiple interpretations.
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