The Zen of Jake Hinkson

In All Due Respect #3, there’s an interview with Jake Hinkson, author of Hell on Church Street (for my review of that, click here), in which he says:

There’s a lot of comfort in the myth of personality—the myth that says people just are who they are—but it’s not true. The reality, I think, is that personality is always in flux and it’s always contingent on context. The rough materials of a personality may stay the same, but people grow or they shrink, they get better or...