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06.10.2008

The Sun’s editor and publisher, Sy Safransky, was featured in today’s broadcast of The Story, an American Public Media program produced by North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC). Listen to the program here.


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The Sun Interview

Table For Six Billion, Please

Judy Wicks On Her Plan To Change The World, One Restaurant At A Time

by David Kupfer

In 1983 Judy Wicks was living in a Philadelphia brownstone that she’d fought to save from mall developers in the 1970s — even committing civil disobedience at one point by lying down in front of a bulldozer.

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Tell Me Something

by Michelle Cacho-Negrete

On a shelf in my home I have my brother’s record albums, their covers worn with handling, sticky residue evidence of his fondness for candy. Johnny Mathis, Frankie Lyman, the Drifters, Martha and the Vandellas: “Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you coming back?”

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Ponchatoula

by Louis E. Bourgeois

I was twenty-one years old and taking freshman composition, because I’d gotten a late start in college. I probably wouldn’t have gone to college at all if I hadn’t lost my left arm in a car accident at the age of nineteen.

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Poetry

One Argument For The Existence Of God

by Katrina Vandenberg
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Readers Write

Up All Night

by Our Readers

It started around midnight as a trembling in the bed. Then my husband, Fred, started thrashing around as if he were in pain.

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In This Issue

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Sunbeams

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Khalil Gibran

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Letter to the Editor

If you’re thinking about writing us a letter, give in to the temptation.

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