Maureen Thornton

Maureen Thornton is a freelance writer whose articles on people in the arts, sciences, and entertainment have appeared in a variety of publications. Before retiring from a career in business development at a national research institute she had been a research scientist, and before that she spent several years as a Pan Am flight attendant. Thornton holds BS and MS degrees in molecular biology.

Conversations

The Obsessions, the Overall Work: An Interview with James Reston Jr.

INTRODUCTION With a bibliography that ranges from playwriting and fiction to nonfiction works on science, politics, medieval history, and current events, James Reston Jr. could be called a modern Renaissance man. My first acquaintance with the author was through the movie Frost/Nixon (2008), which was based on The Conviction of Richard Nixon, Reston’s 2007 book […]

Fall 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Fall 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Fall 2021

Maureen Thornton

The Obsessions, the Overall Work: An Interview with James Reston Jr.

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Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...