06/05/2025
My students are creative. They look up the meaning of the word “apocalypse,” discover the Greek word apokálypsis means revelation. Instead of talking about the end of the world, they talk about what is revealed. In a novel, it turns out, much is revealed. Apocalyptic revelations are typically mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, they read off Wikipedia. What is an author to a character but an otherworldly being, a god of a kind?
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—From the dispatch, “A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths,” by Hollie Adams, issue 127
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Congratulations, Hollie! "A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths" has been selected by Best Canadian Essays 2026 (Biblioasis) and was shortlisted for the Maine Literary Awards 2025 in the Short Works Competition in Nonfiction.
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Read at geist.com/fact/a-partial-list-of-inconvenient-truths