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Opinion: 2020 'dumpster fire' year in culture CNN 12/20/2020 © CNN Illustration/Netflix/Getty Images "It simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered." That's how Katherine Anne Porter described living through the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic while working as a journalist in Denver. These experiences informed her semi-autobiographical 1939 short novel, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a searing depiction of the twin ravages of a deadly virus and a world war on a country desperate to escape...

Opinion: 2020 'dumpster fire' year in culture CNN 12/20/2020 © CNN Illustration/Netflix/Getty Images "It simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered." That's how Katherine Anne Porter described living through the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic while working as a journalist in Denver. These experiences informed her semi-autobiographical 1939 short novel, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a searing depiction of the twin ravages of a deadly virus and a world war on a country desperate to escape...

Opinion: 2020 'dumpster fire' year in culture CNN 12/20/2020 © CNN Illustration/Netflix/Getty Images "It simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered." That's how Katherine Anne Porter described living through the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic while working as a journalist in Denver. These experiences informed her semi-autobiographical 1939 short novel, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a searing depiction of the twin ravages of a deadly virus and a world war on a country desperate to escape...

Opinion: What can sustain us through this darkest season CNN 12/19/2020 Opinion by Jay Parini © Spencer Platt/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 16: People walk through Manhattan in a snow storm on December 16, 2020 in New York City. New York City is expected to get between 10 inches and a foot of snow on Wednesday and Thursday in what is the first winter storm of the year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) "Snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast," wrote Robert Frost, the great American poet, in "Desert Places." He was a poet who knew something about sno...

To my teacher and friend: Despite everything, your guidance never wavered "Though cancer stole any chance of us working as colleagues, you continue to be an inspiration," writes Matthew Pearson in this letter to his former teacher Mary McGuire By Matthew Pearson (Courtesy of Matthew Pearson) I still have the hand-written notes I jotted down in a three-ring Hilroy notebook on Jan. 8, 2008—the date of my first radio reporting class. You were the professor. I arrived at grad school months earlier with a singular purpose: To become a newspaper reporter. By the time I entered your Carle...