Envy Is Ignorance

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Envy Is Ignorance

  • Author – Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Memoir

  • Type – Short Story

  • Publication Date – 2010

  • Publisher – Bravado (18, p. 44-45)

  • Medium – Magazine

  • Available at – amandabarusch.com

  • PDF – Envy Is Ignorance

  • Synopsis – This autobiographical essay explores envy, shame, and guilt in the context of a horrible murder.

Colorful illustration of a truck driving on a winding road through a jungle.
Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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