David Huebert

Dec 7, 2024 | theglobeandmail.com | David Huebert

Aug 21, 2024 | hazlitt.net | David Huebert |John McGrath |Richa Kaul Padte

What it means to be modern is to be creatures of oil. —Stephanie LeMenagerWhat if oil could speak? Is it already saying something to us? — Jaspreet SinghiI wanted to write an oil story, different from the narratives I’d encountered, and a scene from Homer’s Odyssey kept gurgling through the murk of me. To find his way home, the lost seafarer Odysseus must travel to the underworld to receive a prophecy from the blind seer, Tiresias.

Aug 20, 2024 | geist.com | David Huebert

The app insists that I am not my thoughts. The app does not know I am a professor of religion—the Irving Chair of Critical Salvation Studies. The app has never asked. The app says the goal of meditation is not to stop thinking; the goal is to discern without judgement, to bear witness to the monkey circus, to provide a portable paradise in the mind. The app does not suspect I am using it to develop a future course on mindfulness and commodified spirituality.

Jun 22, 2024 | theglobeandmail.com | David Huebert

Oct 10, 2023 | geist.com | Sara de Waal |Owen Torrey |David Huebert |Eleanor Panno

Geist 124 Notes & Dispatches from Molly Cross-Blanchard, Sara de Waal, Owen Torrey, and more; New fiction by David Huebert; Comic by Eleanor Panno; Feature essay from Christine Lai; the winners of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Also in Geist 124: “My Body Is a Wonderland” by Ian Roy “Metanoias” by Margaret Nowacyzk “Dead Listener” by Andrew Steinmetz “Detritus from the House of Rage” by Jen Sookfong Lee “Coffeetable Sex Books and the Words of Gods” by Nick Thran “The...