Ryan Day

Timothy Ryan Day is the author of the novel Big Sky, the monograph Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt, and the poetry collection Green & Grey. He teaches Shakespeare, ecocriticism, and writing at Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus.

Excerpt from Outside Athens

One evening after the clapping she took their dog out for a walk around the neighborhood. Upon returning she spotted an old man with a Jack Russell on a leash, staring at the facade of her building. She nodded and tried to continue past him.             “Vives aquí?” He asked her.             “Yes, vivo aqui,” she responded in

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Excerpt from Big Sky

Words. It all started with words. If words were capable of carrying messages, of encoding information in impossibly complex ways, of colonizing the minds of entire nations and even extending beyond them, of storing themselves remotely in amorphous cultural memories, adapting over generations, dictating the behaviors of humanity by defining the very limits of what

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