A New Myth
Nolan James Steven Cross is an exceptional name. It is a name one would expect wedged in among the romantics: Lord George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Nolan James Steven Cross. The name smacks one hard with what I believe Sigmund Freud first coined as “pen-name envy”, a common affliction among writers of all classifications. Nolan Cross is a fiction writer, from the very bottom of his heart, and I am not. We first met at Green Auto, an ex-mechanic’s shop turned indie music venue in the industrial east corner of Vancouver...
I like the metaphor by Will Campos, that storytelling is the act of uncovering emotional truths, which are distinct from…