The Slow-Cooked Sentence

Words are my sustenance

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“Art is a form of nourishment,” Susan Sontang, 1964.

Hello. My name is Rachael Conlin Levy, and words are my sustenance. As a former newspaper reporter, I like to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and draw connections. As a reader and writer, I like the shape and sound and taste of sentences. This blog is where thoughts simmer like soup on the stove; delicious results come with time and salt.

The Slow-Cooked Sentence is a place of self-discovery. Guided by literature, science, art, philosophy, politics, culture, philosophy, and religion, I write my way toward understanding myself and the world. My work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Las Vegas Sun, Kindred, and elsewhere.

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This blog began in 2007 as a labor of love, born in response to the inverse relationship between mothering and writing–more to write about, less time to write. Today The Slow-Cooked Sentence continues to be a place gritty with reality, a place where risks were taken, a place of nourishment. Welcome to my table.

 

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