this year for christmas my dad got me a subscription to the sun magazine. i would highly recommend spending the money to get this every month. i intend to grow old with it. two of my favorite things about the magazine are: 1. readers write - every publication includes about 5 pages worth of stories/essays written by the readers on a topic assigned a few months in advance. 2. fantastic, beautiful black and white photography to accompany wonderful interviews, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, 2 pages worth of beautiful quotes and an excerpt from a recommended book.
from the website:
The Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of being human. The Sun celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in its pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet those challenges.
The Sun publishes the work of emerging and established artists who are striving to be thoughtful and authentic. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize, been published in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, and been broadcast on National Public Radio.
The Sun invites readers to consider an array of political, social, and philosophical ideas and then to join the conversation. Each issue includes a section devoted entirely to writing by readers, who address topics as varied as Telling the Truth, Neighbors, Hiding Places, Second Chances, and Gambling.
From its idealistic, unlikely inception in 1974 to its current incarnation as a nonprofit magazine with more than 70,000 subscribers, The Sun has attempted to marry the personal and political; to honor the genuine and the spiritual; to see what kind of roommates beauty and truth can be; and to show that powerful teaching can be found in the lives of ordinary people.
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