Reading Wildly: Ben Okri and his book The Freedom Artist Finding freedom isn’t easy. Getting locked up is surprisingly easy, if you take your eye off the ball and don’t follow the said, and unsaid rules of the game.  Finding freedom is something that Okri’s anonymous freedom artists strive for. The ‘freedom artists’ daub on…

Grief is as much about forgetting, as remembering the dead. Forgetting every morning that she’s not upstairs, but has passed.  Forgetting and disappearances are the stuff of dystopian writings.  These dystopias are our realities, often hidden and forgotten with people disappeared behind closed doors. I am reading wildly the writings of authors who are not…