Laura Farmer‘s work has appeared in Dossier, Iowa Review, and other journals. She supervises the Writing Studio at Cornell College and lives and writes in Marion, Iowa.
Fall 2014
On Rachel Cantor’s A Highly Unlikely Scenario: Or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the classic 1949 text on comparative mythology, Joseph Campbell argues there is one common structure that unites all hero myths, no matter the culture or time period.
Spring 2012
Boys Enter the House: Justin Torres’ We the Animals
Kids run. Not like you and I run—measured, paced, with a grimace. They run voluntarily, racing to the car, up the stairs, to the corner and back. When they run they smile, they yell.