A Bell ringing in the empty sky : [electronic resource] the best of the Sun / edited by Sy Safransky.

"A collection of writings from the first ten years of the Sun, a magazine of ideas, published in Chapel Hill, North Carolina."

v. 1. Sy's spac / Lorenzo W. Milan ; News from El Corazón : in the composing room / Pat Ellis Taylor ; Sharing history, with Rufus / John Rosenthal ; Riches / Sy Safransky ; Autobiography / Carl Mitcham ; Stories / Sparrow ; Quiet life in a loud world / Robert Horvitz ; Family stories / Ramona Alvarodiaz ; Fathers / Sy Safransky ; Angel at the gate / David Guy ; Opened flesh, naked spirit / Elizabeth Rose Campbell ; Sara Elizabeth / Sy Safransky ; Being a parent / John Rosenthal, Patience Blandford, Dee Dee Small-Hooker ; Insisting on love / John Rosenthal ; First sexual experiences ; The pornographer / David C. Childers ; Savarin / Richard Williams ; Wine : a lesson in self-discovery ; Maps to where you live / Joel Jackson ; Possessiveness and jealousy / Brian Knave ; At work / Joe Blankenship ; The choice of emptiness / Jim Ralston ; Three photographs / John Rosenthal ; Sickness / Paul Kommel ; Cholestiatoma / David Koteen ; Nothing scares me / Dusty Miller ; Facing the struggle / Peg Staley ; Asking after my own light / Roger Sauls ; On the mind and cancer / Stephanie Matthews-Simonton ; The dolphin messenger / Michael Shorb ; Patricia Sun / Elizabeth Rose Campbell ; Oil / Alan Brilliant ; Fugitives / Carol Hoppe ; There is no school on the second floor / Ron Jones ; Looking back : Tuli Kupferberg on the not-so-bygone sixties / Howard Jay Rubin ; Kicking the corpse--or is this love? / Sy Safransky ; How to really change society / Sparrow, Bruce Terrell, Gerard Saucier ; Peace Nigger's long march / David Grant ; Chronicles / Michael Shorb ; Going against the dragon : an interview with Robert Bly / Sy Safransky ; Facing fear : Dee Dee Small-Hooker ; Lord Shantih / Thomas Wiloch ; Kali comes homes / Elizabeth Rose Campbell ; Amazing coincidences / Patricia Bralley ; Spiritual fascism in America / Moira Crone ; Lou, turn up your hearing aid / Karl Grossman ; On interviewing SWami Muktananda ; PSychology today / Judson Jerome ; The lazy man / Thaddeus Golas ; How things came into existence / Franklin Mills ; Living within the question : an interview with Reshad Feild / Howard Jay Rubin ; Tales of Trickster / David Citino ; An evening with Ram Dass ; Zen and the art of peanut butter / W.G. McDonald -- v. 2. A short history of part of North Carolina / C.B. Clark ; Seeing it this way helps better than being a highway frisbee / Hal J. Daniel III ; Black reaper / Lorenzo W. Milam ; The elements / David C. Childers ; Parents / Sparrow ; Three photographs / Priscilla Rich ; Carl. Death bed. From Burnside to Goldblatt by streetcar / J.W. Rivers ; New York diary : amazing flesh / Sy Safransky ; My father's garage on Christmas night / Michael Shorb ; Waiting / Elizabeth Rose Campbell ; The funeral / David Citino ; Childhood fears / David C. Childers, Paul Linzotte ; Stealing souls / John Rosenthal ; Recognition / Sy Safransky ; On women / Cindy Crossen ; Living at the edge / Barbara Street ; Good marriages / Adam Fisher ... [et al.] ; Pockets. A few things explained / Steven Ford Brown ; Hard learning : a diary / Stephanie Mills ; In defense of Van Gogh / Leslea Newman ; The Lucy syndrome / David Koteen ; My body / David Searls ... [et al.] ; You eat it / Sy Safransky ; Death and other cures / Sy Safransky ; My father's dying / Virginia L. Rudder ; Gently changing : an interview with O. Carl Simonton / Lightning Brown ; A father's death / O. Carl Simonton ; Man is / Irving Weiss ; The silent mind : an interview with Jehangir Chubb / Sy Safransky ; Birdseye / Pat Ellis Taylor ; O Marie, çoncue sans pêchê / Kathleen Snipes ; Memoirs of a professional killer / Art Hill ; Man of silver, man of gold / Leslie Woolf Hedley ; Lies / Christopher Bursk ; The photographs / John Rosenthal ; We're all doing time : an interview with Bo and Sita Lozoff / Howard Jay Rubin ; What's happening?. Who understands me but me? / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; We are people / Ben Chavis ; Release / Jommy Santiago Baca ; Morning shastra / James Magill ; We killed them / Ron Jones ; The depths of a clown : an interview with Wavy Gravy / Howard Jay Rubin ; News from Hacker City / Richard Gess ; Lord Shantih / Thomas Wiloch ; Hot dogs / Karl Grossman ; Californicated, santa crucified / Rob Brezsny ; Drugs ; Something does puch the river / David Spangler ; Growing older / Adam Fisher ; The weather this morning. Advent / Roger Sauls ; A medical doctor diagnoses reality / Irving Oyle ; The eleventh man / Leonard Rogoff ; Autobiography no. 34 / Carl Mitcham ; Three photographs / Priscilla Rich ; Of God, and my father / David M. Guy ; Seeing the gift : an interview with Hugh Prather / Sy Safransky ; How I see God / Virginia Mudd, Kathleen Snipes ; Teachers / Francesca Hampton ; An interview with Ram Dass / Sy Safransky ; Random notes on spiritual life / Adam Fisher.