Recounting Souciant
Kim Jong-Il’s death was announced just as I was leaving Seoul. Though I don’t speak Korean, it wasn’t hard to surmise from the TV screen what was up. I couldn’t believe the timing. I spent the whole ride to the airport glued to the news, awed by how composed the newscasters appeared.
The image seemed appropriate for my final article for 2011: Introducing Souciant (Slight Return), my take on how the first nine months of Souciant had gone. Check out Warm Storage, Charlie Bertsch’s additional reflections. Charlie recounts the brainstorming that lead to the journal’s inception.