Richard Whittaker

About the Author

Richard Whittaker is the West Coast Editor of Parabola and is the founding editor of works & conversations. A collection of his interviews, The Conversations, Interviews with Sixteen Contemprary Artists, is available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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On Hopelessness and Hope: A Conversation with Deep Psychologist Michael Penn

October 27, 2018By Richard Whittaker

A conversation with deep psychologist Michael Penn

To Try To Have Some Healing, A Conversation with Silas Hagerty

November 22, 2016By Richard Whittaker

Silas Hagerty was a young filmmaker in his twenties when I met him at a Servicespace retreat. […]

Our stories can bind us or set us free. They have the power to shape our identities and the world around us, and have been told since the dawn of civilization.

Join editor Tracy Cochran at the Rubin Museum of Art on August 24th from 2:00 PM until 5:00 PM for a a day of mindfulness meditation and mindful writing. Mindfulness gives our stories space and compassion, allowing them to unfold and reveal new insights and possibilities. We will explore our storytelling nature, seeing how our stories can change—heartaches giving way to healing, endings leading to new beginnings. Writers and non-writers, meditators and absolute beginners are all welcome to come enjoy this day. For more information, please visit this link.

Two acclaimed filmmakers open this issue of Parabola: Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, Kundun, Silence, and other masterpieces including this Fall’s offering, The Irishman; and Kent Jones, creator of this year’s Diane and director of the New York Film Festival. Scorsese writes of forgiveness; Jones discusses how forgiveness informs and illuminates Scorsese’s movies. What stands out in both men’s essays and in their art is an understanding that we each exist in a web of meaningful relationship; that what we do matters, that we each have a responsibility to others and to the world. Read more>

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