Robert Wood
Robert Wood is interested in dream, enlightenment, nature, suburbs and philosophy, and is a Malayali who lives in Boorloo with connections to the East Indian Ocean. He has worked as an academic, editor, unionist, cultural officer, and waiter; and volunteered for pacifist, environmental, human rights, refugee and free speech causes. The author of five books and over 300 publications, Robert has credits in The Guardian, LA Review of Books, Cultural Weekly, Counterpunch, LIMINAL, Semaphore, and elsewhere. His archive is housed at the Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in Philadelphia.
All essays by Robert Wood
Quiet Conversations in a Very Noisy Room
It is interesting to reflect further on the reasons for the short life span of most literary journals. One contributing factor, which I want to highlight, is the economic difficulty. Funding is hard to come by in literature, especially when we compare it to other artforms.