Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007

Cover of Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007
Kathleen Holt
EDITOR
Jennifer Viviano
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Leigh van der Werff
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Brian Doyle
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Julia Heydon
Marianne Keddington-Lang
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Kate Sage
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Curt Yehnert

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Secrets

Patience
a poem by Laton Carter
The Eagle Has Landed!
by Edwin Battistella
Language can hide true meanings in plain sight.
Job's Daughter
by Debra Gwartney
Keeping a secret for a secret's sake
The Times versus BoingBoing.net
by Alice Tallmadge
The changing roles of secret keepers in the Digital Age.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
by Jennifer Allen
Preserving the intimacy of secrets
In the Dark
an interview by Brett Campbell
Is technology enhancing or eroding efforts toward transparency in government?
Hiding Men
by Tracy Daugherty
The shared secrets of Kierkegaard, Kafka, and Munch
Confessional Culture
by Michael Clark
Giving in to the irresistable urge to know--and tell--all
Women and Secrets
by Brian Doyle
"I have something to tell you."
Chance Booty
by Kelle X. Lawrence
The secret lives of storage units and the people who plunder them
Life as Fiction
by Lex Runciman
Closed adoptions offer the chance for open possibilities.

Secret Lives by Mary Rechner

Sigmund Freud
Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz
Arthur Miller
Vladimir Nabokov

Departments

Contributors

Letter from the Editor

Letters from Readers

Field Work:
Building Memory: A University of Oregon lecture series and design competition reveal why we should preserve what we might rather forget.
By Sona Pai
For Artists' Sake: A new organization supports creativity at its source
By Sona Pai

Posts: Readers Write about Secrets

Review: The Straw Man by Dan DeWeese

Resources: Secrets

Croppings: Alice in Wonderland, a mural by Louis Bunce