Author Archives: Richard Guzman

Bryan House Expands

The movement to “break the cycle of working-class poverty through home ownership” is expanding to the East Side of Aurora! Continue reading

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Bryan House on NBC News

Helping Refugees from Around the Globe The NBC news report below features Iraqi refugee Imaad Hasan and his family.  Rick Guzman, co-founder of Bryan House, is interviewed on how these programs work to break cycles of poverty for refugee families through home … Continue reading

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The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 1

This essay originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly.  It  focuses on Raja Rao’s three major novels (Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, and The Cat and Shakespeare), arguing that they parallel the three stages of Vedic enlightenment—myth, philosophy, and perception—and … Continue reading

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