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Joel Pablo Salud
Nursing Wounds: A closer look at the nurses’ deployment ban
LEONIDES Hill, or Diesh to friends, is a single mother of two children and a registered Filipino nurse by profession.
Literature in the Time of Coronavirus
Auschwitz. The name alone raises images of corpses by the thousands, strewn about in their less than ritualistic common grave, the odor of burnt flesh, and the screams of the tortured, starved, and those left to rot for simply being Jews.
The Making of Unforgettable People
If charity begins at home, empathy for the writer begins at the forefront of all attempts at character development.
The Lightning Bug and the Lightning
I was still in my light khaki shorts when this instruction from my father literally changed the course of my life: “Anak, always have a dictionary by your side. Knowing words is half the battle won.”
Pessoa and the disquiet of literature
Largely unknown, and who described his face as thin, inexpressive, “betrays no intelligence, no intensity, nothing whatever to make it stand out from the stagnant tide of other faces,” the moustachioed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) once grumbled against his day job as a bookkeeper.
Only you can tell
Any writer can become quite used to the specter of success if and when it pours from above.
If you want to be a writer…
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”—Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Savage Mind: Divergence and Convergence
This story was first published in the Philippines Graphic magazine.
The National Artist on Rosales, Reforms and the Duterte ‘Revolution’
AT the heart of every nation is memory. And there’s no better way to be reminded of it than through the eyes and words of National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil José.
Children on the run: A closer look at child crime
By Joel Pablo Salud / Special to the BusinessMirror
F. Sionil José: Young and at war
IF I were to name a man who had seen it all, my first thoughts would go to National Artist for Literature F. Sionil José.