Issue No. 5|Archives Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843, the story that has ever since come to embody, as has the entire legendary life of its author. The true spirit and eternal hope for a more prosperous and more just coming new year that the best sentiments of the winter holiday season have always been all about. Dickens was the champion of the poor and downtrodden, never forgetting the humiliation of his father being thrown into debtor’s prison, which precipitated the young boy’s forced abandonment of school in order to work in a factory. The illiterate poor returned Dickens’s love and affect

Artists on Writers - No. 4, Gabriel Garcia Marquez by techgnotic, journal

Artists on Writers - No. 4, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nov 26, 2014

Issue No. 4|Archives The Spectre of Magical Realism Comes to TexasGabriel García Márquez ••• When he died last April at age 87, he had for a half century been a candidate for “world’s greatest living writer.” Author of short stories and novels, including his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in Literature in 1982. He was a fierce critic of the United States and had a friend in admirer Fidel Castro, with whom he sometimes shared notes on his works-in-progress. He was banned

Artists on Writers - No. 1, Hermann Hesse by techgnotic, journal

Artists on Writers - No. 1, Hermann Hesse

Apr 27, 2013

Issue No. 1|Archives Forewordby techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) ••• I was inspired to create this series by naikki (https://www.deviantart.com/naikki) while looking through her gallery of diverse artwork and reading through her journals which are focused on her favorite inspiring writers and thinkers. I felt certain there must be beautiful artwork in the form of portraits and tributes to these writers and their stories. I found most of naikki's choices of quotes to be inclusionary, redeeming and welcoming to any artist on their own path. Instead of just crediting naikki with the inspiration for this new series on depthRADIUS (https://www.deviantart.com/depthradius), I also invited her to provide a quote about He

Artists on Writers - No. 2, Charles Bukowski by techgnotic, journal

Artists on Writers - No. 2, Charles Bukowski

Jun 8, 2013

Issue No. 2|Archives Forewordby techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) ••• If the severely acne-scarred face and coarse exterior brought on by his alcoholic and depressed life was the book cover of his being, then Charles was the ultimate book that could not be judged by its cover. The exquisite collection that was this everyman artist’s art consisted of thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels—mostly all wrenchingly autobiographical, mostly all about moments of epiphany and grace in an otherwise miserable and unhappy existence. The perfect explication of the common man's deepest truth; it's not easy to be here.

Artists on Writers - No. 3, Pablo Neruda by techgnotic, journal

Artists on Writers - No. 3, Pablo Neruda

Dec 7, 2013

Issue No. 3|Archives Poet of Lovers & Rebels, Poet of Dreamersby MARX77 (https://www.deviantart.com/marx77) ••• As is the case with all artists, poets too are greatly influenced by the world around them and how they perceive it. The splendor of the heavens above, the dynamics of the earth beneath their feet. The uncertainty of life, the inevitability of death. But more importantly, a poet's inspiration comes from what they carry within themselves; their memories, relationships, their dreams, joy and grief. Verses borne of turmoil and tragedy decades ago continue to resonate to this day and are as relevant now as they were back then. Truly poetry is