July 5, 2017
A Writer’s Romance with Screens
When I can’t put my finger on what I’m feeling, I want to Shazam it or press Control+F, and then I realize I’m turning into a machine. In Adrienne Rich’s […]
June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
October 7, 2013
Literature and the Loss of Confidence
Mathematicians have been asserting, since Pythagoras, how number underpins all of nature. The discipline of physics has spawned an entire speculative cosmogony that strives to discredit and replace Genesis. Religious […]
September 18, 2013
Storytelling Now, or, Watching Movies at the Gym
At Eastern Tennessee State University, you can earn a Master of Arts in Storytelling. Located in Johnson City, Tennessee, “in the heart of traditional storytelling country,” the next town over […]
September 16, 2013
“The Authoress of the Odyssey”
Was the Odyssey written by a woman? The theory has been raised in the past—and long before the rise of late 20th-century feminism, which is when, historically, you’d expect […]
April 2, 2012
The Enduring Appeal of Jules Verne
If all Verne had done was predict the future, he would excite my admiration, not my love. How perspicacious the man was! Really ahead of his time! And that’s where […]
February 23, 2012
And Another Thing:
My favorite word in the English language (at least for today) is and. I’ve realized it’s the basis of my metaphysics—many Gods and one Brahman—as well as of my literary […]