Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Climbing Bryan’s Mountain, 2017
This is part of a series featuring excerpts from a journal I keep on my time in Sedona, AZ, especially up on Bryan’s Mountain (Bell Rock to the rest of the world). I put some of my youngest son Bryan’s … Continue reading
Stranger in the Village: Style and Rage
I, like many others, believe that James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” is the greatest essay ever written in English. It’s scope, for one, is titanic. It moves from a story of one black man’s experiences in a Swiss village … Continue reading
Climbing Bryan’s Mountain, 2016 – Part 1
This is Part 1 of my 2016 journal excerpt from the series “Climbing Bryan’s Mountain.” Part 2 features a Video of a bike ride slogging up to and zooming down from Bryan’s Mountain, otherwise known as Bell Rock, an iconic … Continue reading