Journey (If where you’re going isn’t home) by Max Zimmer BOOK EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 1 You know before it’s over. This sound that takes the human breath of a voice and gives it the shimmer of steel and makes it light and effortless and fly like a bird made of the clear bright ringing sound [...]
Author Profile: Max Zimmer
Called a raw new voice in American fiction by Rolling Stone, Pushcart Prize winner Max Zimmer was born in Switzerland, brought across the Atlantic at the age of four, and raised in Utah in the take-no-prisoners crucible of the Mormon faith. In the summer of 1978 he wrote a long love story that became the [...]
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Leaving Home: Learning What You Know
by Max Zimmer, author of the trilogy If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home If I’m wrong, please let me know, but I think it was Miles Davis who talked about studying trumpet this way. First you copy, he said. Then you learn. For Shake Tauffler, playing along with record albums in his garage, copying was playing [...]
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Empathy: Starting from Common Ground
by Max Zimmer, author of the trilogy If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home began as a long story I wrote in the summer of 1978 after my first year teaching at Oswego. Titled “The Courtship of Divorce,” it was a fictional account of the breakup of my marriage to the [...]
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A Trumpet Lesson: Knowing What You Write
by Max Zimmer, author of the trilogy If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home Maybe the oldest rule we as writers have is to write what we know. There’s also its flip side. I guess you could say its alter ego rule. To know what you write. My wife and I used to take a week out [...]
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Controversial Topics in the Bible.
Guest post by Bill Winter I never draw close to controversy – I stray from it – but some items are just too tempting to avoid sharing one’s thoughts about. This one is an age-old debate. The question put to us today is: Do animals have souls? Humanity has constantly told itself “No!” and the [...]
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Author Profile: Bill Winter
Bill Winter grew up liking to read by looking at the pictures. No one ever said reading was easy and no one helps you with the Books of the Bible – you are on your own. So Bill was inspired to create an aid to the Bible for himself and for others by compiling the [...]
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What use is the Bible?
Guest post by Bill Winter What are the benefits of the Bible and how can it be useful to me. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments. The Old section written by and aimed at the Jewish faith has been embraced by modern day Christians who feel the Old dove-tails into the [...]
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Is There a Difference?
Guest post by Bill Winter In our present day world, there are sharp lines of delineation between Catholic and Protestant forms of Christianity. Martin Luther’s revolt against indulgences within the vast church created the schism which lead to the divide of churches. Protestants were so named because, as a sect, we protested against the universal [...]
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The Bible is an Evolutionary Book
Guest post by Bill Winter Significant changes to our modern day Bible have all evolved around format and not content. The basic premise and rock-solid tenet of the faith is based upon the infallibility of the “Word” and the fact that for centuries, the integrity of the original has not been lost, nor compromised. The [...]
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