His sorrow and confusion culminate in a profound spiritual crisis in the dark
2009) and the children’s story Anything But Hank
the city of their origins – we find the extraordinary amongst the contemporary disorientation that plagues us all
daring to convey raw emotion with disarming empathy
The Syllabus Non-Fiction His sorrow and confusion culminateThe Syllabus by Mike Barnes. With section titles like e mails to the coast, Accelerator, Decelerator, and Postscript: Three Teachers, the narrator of The Syllabus M digresses, fantasizes, catalogues and invents, slowly recovering the strands of childhood exploration and adolescent obsession, joy and morbidity, that have led him to both alienation and freedom. First friend, first love, first sex, inklings of vocation: all of the elements of the