Zach Terrell
Zach Terrell

Zach Terrell is a writer and teacher living in New York City.

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Do You Know the San Man?

Sanitation workers are remaking our world.

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Quicklink Friday | 8.16.13

Our weekly roundup of good reads

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Quicklink Friday | 8.9.13

Our weekly round-up of good reads

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What Makes a Good Book

For those of us who tend to read the same sort of stuff over and over again, I give you Marcel Proust on what makes a good book

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De-Privatizing Poetry

A great run-on sentence from one W. B. Yeats encouraging us to think of poetry not as a solemn, pious activity but as a public, formative, communal exercise

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Curator Quicklink Friday | 8.2.13

Our weekly round-up of our favorite reads

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Curator Quicklink Friday | 7.26.13

A few of our favorite reads of the week

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#GrowCurator Campaign: Update 2 - Donation Perks

Below is a list of all the sweet perks you’ll get in return for donating to our #GrowCurator Campaign

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#GrowCurator Campaign: Donors

We owe a huge thank you to the following people for graciously donating resources to our grow campaign

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#GrowCurator Campaign: Introduction

We’re utterly convinced there are artists and geniuses out there scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it, and they deserve more and better attention. With your help, The Curator can continue celebrating them.

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Curator Quicklink Friday | 7.19.13

D.H. Tracy and the Role of the Poet-Critic “I would guess that if you hired a left-brainiac economist to analyze “the present situation of poetry,” he or she would find that the dynamics of the system match those of an economy with overwhelming quantities of counterfeit money in it.” D.H. Tracy, Contemporary Poetry Review Mozart […]

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Curator Quicklink Friday | 7.12.13

This Violin is Worth $3.5 Million Why? Why do we see some things as precious and others as worthless? A journey through the secret world of fine violins in search of the meaning of value “Of the 6 billion people on the planet, there are perhaps four men whose knowledge of rare violins is so […]

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Can Song Lyrics Be Considered Poetry?

Or is that even a good question?

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Curator Quicklink Friday | 7.5.13

The New Theist “How William Lane Craig became Christian philosophy’s boldest apostle.” Nathan Schneider, Chronicle of Higher Education Bill Craig and the Story of Christian Academics In reply to the above article: “There’s a major difference between [William Lane Craig] being prominent and well respected within the community of intellectuals and [William Lane Craig] being […]

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The Two Best "Cookbooks" You'll Ever Own

What I wouldn’t give to have dinner with these two gentleman.

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The Artist's Ambition

[W]hen all thought of your name is obliterated and all you want is the poem, to be the means wherein something of reality, perhaps even something of eternity, realizes itself. That is noble ambition.

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Does America Lack Sacred Space?

Does the institutional formlessness of American religious life degenerate its aesthetic influence?

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Imagination au Pouvoir!

To give up on the naïveté of romanticism would be to give up on a form of resistance to what Wallace Stevens calls ‘the pressure of reality’. It would lead to the complete privatization of literature and all artistic production; it would be the end of philosophy understood as the imaginative effort to link the […]

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A Surprising Source of Wisdom for Faith-Based Filmmakers

A politician calling us to make better films.

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On Doing Something Interesting

Marilynne Robinson wants you to impress her.

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A Very Brief Taxonomy of Doubt

If you are faithless today, it may be because you are doubtless.

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SXSW Interview with Easter Island

On the eve of their SXSW debut, brothers Ethan and Asher Payne, founding members of up-and-coming dream-pop outfit Easter Island, sat down with The Curator for a quick chat about djimbés, their forthcoming new music video, and life on the road

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A Southern Existentialist

The Curator talks Walker Percy with documentarian Win Riley

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