About

Sunday, July 01, 2001  | 

Long Pauses was begun in the fall of 2001 as a deliberate effort to put Denise Levertov's advice into practice:

          A line of peace might appear
if we restructured the sentence our lives are making,
revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power,
questioned our needs, allowed
long pauses . . .

Darren Hughes is a web designer, a freelance writer, and a former would-be academic in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has written for Senses of Cinema, Sojourners, and Beyond magazine, and has also contributed essays to academic studies of Philip Roth, American war films, and the history of the American Left.

Long Pauses was designed and hand-coded by Darren, which is worth noting because, as his wife will testify, he is a dork. It's also worth noting as a reminder that all content here is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

A special note to students: if you quote from this site—and judging by traffic statistics, The Woman Warrior, Benito Cereno, July's People, and Buried Child are popular choices—please cite it properly. Your teachers are not stupid.

Site History

Long Pauses is a perpetual work-in-progress. Versions 1, 3, and 6 aren't shown here either because the changes were all structural (the first inclusion of CSS, for example) or because they died on my hard drive, never quite making the leap from drawing board to web server.

Version 2, Fall 2001:

Version 4, April 2003:

Version 5, November 2003:

Version 7, February 2005:

Version 8, December 2005:

Version 9.1, June 2006:

Version 10, January 2008: